Date   : Fri, 17 Dec 1999 07:17:50 -0800 (PST)
From   : Matt Callow <mattcallow@...>
Subject: Re: ZIP drives for BBCs

--- Chezz <achester@...> wrote:
> Would it be easier to use a SCSI zip drive and
> attach it in the same way as
> you would a hard drive ?
Maybe, but I don't have a SCSI ZIP drive, just a
parallel port one.  As far as I can tell this contains
a parallel port to SCSI adapter inside the drive.
> 
> If I remember correctly there was an interface board
> that connected to the
> BBC's 1MHz Bus and converted it to a simple SCSI
> interface.
I don't really wan't to get involved in interfacing to
the 1MHz Bus (yet).  
> 
> The disk should then be accessible using ADFS.
> 
>                   Any thoughts ?
> 
> Andrew Chesterton.
> Network Administrator.
> Blue Wave Systems Ltd.
> Loughborough Park,
> Ashby Road,
> Loughborough.
> Leicestershire.
> LE11 - 3NE.
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> <mailto:achester@...> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Richardson
> [mailto:j.m.richardson@...]
> Sent: 17 December 1999 12:48
> To: BEEB
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] ZIP drives for BBCs
> 
> 
> > > I have been thinking recently about trying to
> use an
> > > Iomega ZIP drive (parallel port version) with a
> BBC.
> >
> > Is the Beeb's parallel interface bidirectional? If
> not, I'm not sure it'd
> > work.
> 
> No it isn't. And nor was any Acorn's until around
> the A5000/A4. So you
> couldn't use the parallel port. But could one use
> something else - the user
> port, the Disc Drive port etc.
> 
> John
> 
> =====================
> John Richardson
> j.m.richardson@...
> =====================
> 

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