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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: textory on August 02, 2004, 12:59:19 PM

Title: IomegaZip/parallel => A2000?
Post by: textory on August 02, 2004, 12:59:19 PM

Got 2 parallel zip drives which once I used with two pcs (home/work).

In this forum I found some postings concerning installing IDE zips. Is it possible to connect the parallel version to an A2000? Or do they have different pins?

Title: Re: IomegaZip/parallel => A2000?
Post by: adolescent on August 03, 2004, 12:24:37 AM

You can't use them directly, but there is an experimental circuit that you can build to do the trick.

http://us.aminet.net/hard/hack/ppazip.lha

Also, IOBlix, VarIO, and maybe Hypercom, I/O boards support parallel zips.

Title: Re: IomegaZip/parallel => A2000?
Post by: hikermike on August 03, 2004, 04:19:32 AM

Why bother, in addition to being a pain, the parallel version is sooo slow.  My external scsi has been working for many years (5?) where as I've had six ide get hit with the click of death.

Title: Re: IomegaZip/parallel => A2000?
Post by: textory on August 03, 2004, 05:47:16 PM

hi hikermike,
right, parallel is terribly slow. But it's part of the equipment I got and (at the moment) I don't want to spend money on scsi-equipment. Until I find a better solution I'll give it a try. And 100 MB zip sound better than 800 KB
diskette.

@adolescent: thanks for the link. really useful.