parallel-to-scsi?

[issarad]

I recently saw a paralle-to-scsi adapter by NEC on Ebay for the pc and was wondering if anything like that was available for the Amiga?   Yes, I know it would dog-slow on parallel, but since the only scsi devices I have are slow ooooold (Syquest 88mb drive and NEC 3x cdrom) and would be nice to be able to use them again.

[FALCON1]

sincerly, forget about that :

* there is no driver
* it would be REALLY dead slow...
* find a cheap SCSI card (Zorro or PCI depending on your setup)

[issarad]

Yeah, that's rather what I figured.  The speed wasn't a huge concern.  My only interest was that my A1200 is a desktop unit (so no cards), and the pcmcia is already being used by a network card.  Too bad, I would have loved using that old gear from my a530 days.

[Brian]

As far as I know the PC and Amiga par port isn't exactly the same so doubt it would work even if someone was to try make a driver for it.

[vortexau]

There is (was?) an American unit, the DataFlyer 1200 SCSI, that connected to the A1200's internal IDE port and added 5 SCSI ID access via a D25 SCSI Port that could be positioned in the knockout panel behind the floppy drive!

the product

[issarad]

Does anyone have any practical experience with the Dataflyer 1200 SCSI?  Sounds like it might fit the bill for what I'm looking to do, especially if I can continue to use the internal IDE port as well.

[vortexau]

The ONLY thing practical that I can say, in regard to it, is to take great care in fitting the PassThru Connector to the A1200's IDE port so as to NOT bend any pins! Once my broken pins were repaired I decided not to risk this damage again, and left the A1200HD as it was! Make certain that you have GOOD LIGHTING so that fitting the connector is less of a risk!

The kit supplies a rather lame rubber-bung that you are to use to secure your 2.25" Hard Drive with. . . . . .
My advice would be to use a paper template to drill 4 NEW (offset) holes in the metal cradle!

(Due to the pass-thru design, the IDE Drive has to be positioned slightly offset from its former intended position.)

You have to run the SCSI Flat Cable under the floppy unit to connect the supplied D-25 in the rear knockout panel in an A1200. In an A600, you have to come up with your own sollution as to this socket's position.