Re: Parallel ZIP / Memory AS400

[Tymm Twillman <tymm coe missouri edu>]

Hmm; I don't care much for these.  At least the docs demand that you have
the Zip Plus drives as the only drive on a chain...  (I bought one and
promptly returned it when I got to that line)... Something that they don't
put on the box.

-Tymm

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 mgraffam@idsi.net wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Dan Morrill wrote:
> > I have a parallel port ZIP drive running on my SX164 with no problems.
> > Apparently the SX164 has a PC-style bi-directional printer port, so the
> > device drivers just... work.  I believe that in 2.1.x kernels, however, I
> > have to enable the "PC-style parallel port" option under the "enable
> > parallel port" option.  If the AS400 has a PC-style parallel port (can
> > anyone else answer this?) I'd imagine you'll have no trouble.
> 
> Another solution is to get a SCSI Zip with a parallel port adapter. A
> friend as this set up with his Jaz. On machines with external SCSI,
> he uses it, otherwise he uses the parallel port. Works fine on x86
> Linux. SCSI Jaz works fine on just about everything .. we've hung it
> off my UDB, a crusty old Sun IPC, PC's, Mac's .. it has always worked
> pretty nice. I'd get one myself, but he lives down the road from me
> so I can always borrow it :)
> 
> Michael J. Graffam (mgraffam@idsi.net)
> "86% of conspiracy theories have some basis in truth... but, oddly enough,
> it's that last 14% that usually gets you killed." 
>     --Talas (http://cadvantage.com/~algaeman/conspiracy/public.htm)
> 
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