Parallel port hard drives?

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <af-list_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Sat Mar 25 21:14:22 2000

I use the 358 with an EPP parallel port and get over 500KB/s with an old
quantum 160meg drive. I tried one of the Belkins and finally returned it
since it had problems with most of my scsi devices. After spending hours
on tech support over a couple of weeks and even buying a separate ps to
provide termination power (their recommendation), I swapped it out with a
new one. Same problems...they couldn't figure out the problem and finally
RMA'd it. The Adaptec, while my least favorite scsi solution, at least
worked with my old HP Scanjet IIP...

On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> It may be quite implementation sensitive, but I've got an older APA348 (the
> latest is the '358) and a Belkin adapter, (they only make one) and the
> BELKIN outperforms the ADAPTEC by quite a bit. I get about 960 KB/sec on a
> drive that does about that well on an ADAPTEC AHA1460 PC-Card adapter on
> this notebook. The Adaptec 348, by comparison, yields a max of about
> 220KB/sec, and the '358 seems to max out at about 160. This is on a cheapo
> WINBOOK XL with 32MB ram and the small (2GB) HDD. I have to believe they'd
> do better elsewhere, though I've not tested it. I've tried the '348 and
> found it capable of about 200 nearly anywhere so long as the attached device
> is that fast.
>
> Dick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2000 4:19 PM
> Subject: Re: Parallel port hard drives?
>
>
> > >Does anyone know of any parallel port hard drives that will work with
> with
> > >my Sharp PC-7000? I only ask because, for some odd reason, whenever I
> copy a
> > >DOS program to a floppy (360K) in Windows, it does not want to work on
> the
> > >Sharp, but works flawlessly on the Windows box (in a DOS window, of
> > >course!). What could be happening? Is there something obvious that I'm
> not
> > >doing right?
> >
> > What I bought was an Adaptec Parallel to SCSI adapter, slow but works
> > pretty well.
> >
> >
>
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