[ILUG] [OT] Parallel to IDE cable

[Liam Bedford]

There are some ways of doing it. Not cheap though. It's more like:

Parallel ----> External box
IDE drive in the external box. 

They tend to emulate some version of scsi over the parallel port (Iomega do
it for definite).

You may find the bare boxes available, but whether they'll work or not under
linux
is a different matter...

L.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Griffin [mailto:doozer at redbrick.dcu.ie]
> Sent: 17 January 2000 13:13
> To: ilug at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG] [OT] Parallel to IDE cable
> 
> 
> 
> sorry for the off topic post
> 
> Is it possible to get a parallel port
> to IDE cable?
> I have an IDE cd-drive that I want to
> use as an external parallel drive
> on a computer, and I was wondering
> if it is possible.
> 
> Does anyone have the pinouts for the
> IDE port either?
> 
> TIA
> Mike.
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