On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> It's a PCMCIA card reader that connects to a parallel port (not to be
> confused with a SmartCard reader). Has anyone used one of these under
> Linux?
If they have, information about it will likely be found here:
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/
Note that everything I have ever seen that hooks up to the parallel port
has sucked rocks when it came to performance (when it worked at all). The
PC parallel port is designed to feed data to a printer, and it doesn't even
do that very well. Hanging a disk drive off of it certainly wasn't in the
original plan. Even the extensions for IRQ-driven and DMA operation are
marginal at best.
> I have a SCSI 1GB Jazz drive that I want to hook up. However, the only
> cable it has is SCSI on one end, and a PCMCIA SCSI card on the other.
Obtain a PCI SCSI host adapter (or VLB, EISA, or even ISA), and a cable,
and attach it that way. It will be easier, faster, more reliable, and all
around better. Trust me. :-)
> The question is, is it a SCSI Jazz drive, or a Parallel drive now?
In theory: SCSI. You would be using the parallel port to connect your
PCMCIA adapter to an emulation layer in software. The PCMCIA card would act
like a PCMCIA card always does. In this case, it would provide a SCSI host
adapter. The Jazz drive would appear as a device on that SCSI bus.
In practice: You have an expensive, time-consuming paperweight. Given the
way Linux usually handles SCSI errors (i.e., it doesn't), you might throw
system instability in there as well. :-)
--
Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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