Hi Efraim,
Well, it really depends on which chip you got inside your parallel to scsi
adapter. Most of them are supported under the 2.2 and 2.4 linux kernels. All
you have to do is to enable SCSI generic and the parallel port stuff inside
the kernel.
A word of caution - Linux doesn't support EPP + DMA very well (at least not
in kernel 2.2.x), so you might wanto to use ECP in your BIOS (also called
ECP+EPP). By telling it's not supported well I mean it won't give you an
optimized speed..
I would recommend to use a cheap SCSI card with your hard drive. You'll get
MUCH better speed then any parallel to scsi coverter (my test so far reached
~300 KB/s from such adaptors under any OS)
Hetz
On Saturday 28 April 2001 10:10, Efraim Yawitz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Does anyone know how to use a parallel-to-SCSI converter under Linux to
> connect an external hard drive (without a SCSI card)? A pointer to some
> documentation would be excellent.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Ephraim Yawitz
>
>
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