Lisa Profile Drive emulation on a PC

From: ajp166 <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Fri Nov 10 18:07:10 2000

From: Phil Budne <phil_at_ultimate.com>


>I've always wanted to do the same sort of thing for RX02's; fool my
>RXV211 into thinking a PC at the other end of the ribbon cable is a
>pair of RX02's. It seems feasible using just a parallel port;
>despite the width of the ribbon cable, it doesn't carry many signals.


Why must it be a parallel port? a M8250 serial would work too though
a new "RX" driver to talk to it would be needed. Also the RX01
controller
is serial not parallel so that could be used in a different way. In the
end
any IO can be used if you create a driver to fake a known device.

Allison
Received on Fri Nov 10 2000 - 18:07:10 GMT

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