Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-08 Thread Steven Hanley
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: I haven't seen too many [OK, none] oldworld's with a parallel port. Perhaps some of the more esoteric/non-apple models have such a thing. I suppose you could go out and buy a PCI parallel port I/O card that might work one

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-03 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 07:33:09PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:25:12PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: I've never used a PCI parport card on any arch, so I don't know what kind of Don't tell me you only have cpu = 486? Did I miss understand you to think that you

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-03 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:25:21AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: No, you missed something there. I said I've never used a PCI parport card, not that I've never used PCI. I've used parallel ports, and I've used PCI, but I've only ever used parallel ports that were build into the motherboard

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-03 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Mike Fedyk wrote: On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 11:25:21AM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: No, you missed something there. I said I've never used a PCI parport card, not that I've never used PCI. I've used parallel ports, and I've used PCI, but I've only ever used parallel

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-03 Thread Michel Lanners
Hi all, On 2 May, this message from Mike Fedyk echoed through cyberspace: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:22:59PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: I haven't seen too many [OK,

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: I haven't seen too many [OK, none] oldworld's with a parallel port. Perhaps some of the more esoteric/non-apple models have such a thing. I suppose you could go out

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-02 Thread Peter Cordes
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: I haven't seen too many [OK, none] oldworld's with a parallel port. Perhaps some of the more esoteric/non-apple models have such a thing. I suppose you could go out

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:22:59PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:23:33PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 07:51:49PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: I haven't seen too many [OK, none] oldworld's with a parallel port. Perhaps some of the more

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-02 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 05:12:24PM -0700, Mike Fedyk wrote: You wouldn't happen to know if they'll work under PPC with the endian change, I'd immagine that driver writers wouldn't expect non-x86 computers to use the card... I've never used a PCI parport card on any arch, so I don't know what

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-02 Thread Mike Fedyk
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:25:12PM -0300, Peter Cordes wrote: I've never used a PCI parport card on any arch, so I don't know what kind of Don't tell me you only have cpu = 486? Did I miss understand you to think that you haven't used PCI on x86? Linux is great on old hardware, but even better

PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-01 Thread Mike Fedyk
Hi, I have a zip250 parrilel port drive, and I wonder if there is a way to get to work with a mac. I want to put up a little drive sharing comp under linux, and I have an abundance of oldworld macs after the transition to PCs. If not, I'll have to use a PC instead. Mike

Re: PC parrilel port zip drive?

2001-05-01 Thread Andrew Sharp
I haven't seen too many [OK, none] oldworld's with a parallel port. Perhaps some of the more esoteric/non-apple models have such a thing. I suppose you could go out and buy a PCI parallel port I/O card that might work a Mike Fedyk wrote: Hi, I have a zip250 parrilel port drive, and I