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Parrallel to Scsi?

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Prince of Persia

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I'm here at work and there asking me to setup a system with a gadgillion peripherals.

Heres the peripherials

1 Ribbon Printer - Parrallel Connect
1 HP Laserjet - Parrallel or Serial
1 HP 990cse - Parrallel
1 Panasonic Scanner - Scsi
1 Hp ScanJet ADF - Parrallel
1 HP Scanjet 3c - Parrallel

Heres my question they previously had *some* of it setup like in a daisy chain, but it was weird because it was like this. Scsi Card ->Cd Burner -> Panansonic Scanner -> Zip Drive -> Hp ScanJet ADF

Now don't ask why there doing it, they just do. But heres the question, can parrallel be linked with scsi? I didn't think this was possible till I saw the setup and was surprised.

On a second note i have a data port switch which it seems I'll end up using.


Help me get all this to work on one computer.
 
but how was the previous person able to set it up

they have a HP Scan jet hooked up to the ZIP 250 which is hooked up to a Panansonic Scanner, and the scanner is hooked up to SCSI CDRW (HP) and the scsi cdrw is hooked up to a scsi card.
 
A scanjet is SCSI and you can buy SCSI zip drives. The old SCSI II cable was a 25 pin Dsub female connection like a || port but it isn't functionally a || port.
 
Oh so its just a an old scsi so it looks like a parrallel, but isn't? I'm not being sarcastic I'm just trying to learn.

Thanks! is there a way to daisy chain parrallels or do you need to use a dataport switch?
 
A parallel port can simulate SCSI. There was a company that sold the software/drivers to do this, I don't know if they're still in buisness. I setup a test station that used a pc's parallel port to connect with a SCSI cdrom. The test station was testing the cdrom, granted it wasn't the fastest setup.
 
Yep thats right they used the same looking cable.
Look at your devices if they are addressable they are SCSI.
|| port is 128 kps transfer rate so you would seriously limit your speed if you used an emulator thats not why you want SCSI.
I've seen some IBM scanners that daisy chain on the || port but oh so slow and they were built that way.
 
The company Pederv is talking about is shuttle, and yes, they are still around. I have some of their parallel to scsi cables, ans yes they work. Work well? No, they are slow as hell but they work. 🙂
 
If you do have extra $$ why don't you network the three printers so e-v-1 can print (|| to 10/100BaseT) to it as for the scanners, get a scsi card and daisy chain them
 
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