IF you have a DLL to support EPP under W9x, you can certainly do that. I've not
yet found one that comes with enough pre-sale doc to verify that it's up to that
kind of performance. There are a few PCI parallel port boards that claim to
have the speed, however. I tabled my S-100 bus probe a year or more ago for the
simple reason that the ports on the motherboards I was considering were not fast
enough. The PCI ones may breathe new life into the project.
The datasheet for the SMC34C60 turned up immediately on a search via GOOGLE.COM.
There's an IP product that pops up too, perhaps worth a look. Be careful not to
mix up the EPP and ECP functions on the SMC part! The two are TOTALLY
different!
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "ajp166" <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 7:46 PM
Subject: Re: ide harddrive
> From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
>
> >I'd be VERY interested in seeing that schematic, Tony! I've no doubt
> that it can be done, but I wonder how fast it will be.
>
> The commercial ones are at least several mb/sec using drives designed for
> DMA33. Only took a minute or less to transfer a set of 28 .CAB files
> (w95).
>
> The device driver runs as a SCSI device under W9x or NT4.
>
Undoubtedly that's a driver for the device under Windows, and not a generic port
driver. Too bad ...
>
> Allison
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Tony Duell" <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
> >To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2001 11:01 AM
> >Subject: Re: ide harddrive
> >
> >
> >> >
> >> > Evening folks, I am looking for a circuit using the parallel port on
> a
> >> > pc to Ide interface, does anyone have a schematic for one?
> >>
> >> Somewhere I have an data sheet for a chip to convert a parallel port
> into
> >> an ISA slot. No, I don't mean a chip for adding a printer port to the
> ISA
> >> bus (like the 82C11 does), I mean a chip that connects to a parallel
> port
> >> (either 'original' or one of the enhanced bidirectional ports), and to
> >> some DRAM, and which allows you to connect anything that you'd
> normally
> >> connect to ISA on the other side of it. It allows you to read/write
> any
> >> port or memory location from the parallel port side, it allows the ISA
> >> device to do DMA into the memory hung off the chip (which can then be
> >> read/written from the parellel port), and so on.
> >>
> >> I think it was made by SMC, but don't quote me on that.
> >>
> >> It looked like a fun device to work with, but I don't know where on
> earth
> >> you'd find one.
> >>
> >> If anyone is interested, I will try and find the data sheet and post
> the
> >> number of the device.
> >>
> >> -tony
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
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