Re: Parallel Zip Drive, One More Time

[Mark McDougall <markm@vl.com.au>]

Michael Black wrote:

> I would have thought a far bigger problem was cooking up a driver for
> the zip drive.  The actual work of writing one, but then perhaps it's
> one of those things that would take up so much RAM space that it wouldn't
> leave much room for other things.  I don't know, but that seems harder
> than getting a bidirectional parallel port.

IIRC, SCSI isn't that much work to setup and get running (admittedly
it's been a *long* time since I wrote a windows SCSI Miniport Driver).

On top of that though, you need to write a filesystem driver for it, at
least if you're going to use a FAT-compatible filesystem for PC<->A2
transfers. Otherwise I guess you can simply layer some Apple DOS over
the top?!?

Regards,

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