Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-26 Thread Tim Allen
On 25/08/10 21:55, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:15:10 -0400, martin.set...@gmail.com said: it probably isn't included in any standard module, however, so you'd probably need to compile your own. Debian Lenny: # modprobe plip # lsmod|grep plip plip 11944 0

Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-25 Thread Simon O'Riordan
I've got drives back to Win3.11 living in boxes I bought on eBay. These can be stripped of useful data and bounced via a floppy to an XP machine for transmission to something current. I really don't have any very, very old Linux drives hanging around. The most modern OS that the dual drive 3.11

Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-25 Thread Peter Merchant
I wondered if there was a linux equivalent to Laplink, and Amazon offers one called PCsync that mentions linux under the OS's available. Reviews are dead against it, and it seems to be USB based. And US of A only. While looking it up I came across the comment that 2 windows XP/2000 PC's can be

Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-25 Thread Dan Jones
It appears Ralph is a glutton for punishment ~Dan On 25 Aug 2010 20:43, Peter Merchant madsmad...@netscape.net wrote: I wondered if there was a linux equivalent to Laplink, and Amazon offers one called PCsync that mentions linux under the OS's available. Reviews are dead against it, and it

Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-25 Thread Martin Settle
There's a much simpler solution than paying for a bad proprietary system... A long time ago I connected a 386 laptop (no network card or USB) to my 'high end' 486 desktop using PLIP -- Parallel Line Internet Protocol. Using it you can make a standard network connection between two computers

Re: [Dorset] Hard Disks over the Parallel Port. (Was: Introduction)

2010-08-25 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:15:10 -0400, martin.set...@gmail.com said: it probably isn't included in any standard module, however, so you'd probably need to compile your own. Debian Lenny: # modprobe plip # lsmod|grep plip plip 11944 0 parport30988 4