From owner-freebsd-scsi Sun Jun 2 06:48:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-freebsd-scsi Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA19560 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 06:48:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA19528 for ; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 06:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id PAA20873; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:48:31 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id PAA28052; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 15:48:31 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id OAA01065; Sun, 2 Jun 1996 14:56:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606021256.OAA01065@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Parallel to Scsi To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 14:56:49 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: afurman@sunfire.j51.com (Adam Furman) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Adam Furman at "Jun 1, 96 00:13:24 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Adam Furman wrote: > I have a FreeBSD server that has IDE drives in it. I would like to get > the Belkin one because I would like to move around my external dat drive > and would find this conivernt and chaper. I'm sorry to say, but i doubt anybody is going to write a driver for this type of devices anytime soon. Given the crippled design of the standard parallel port, and the fact that the cheapest full-featured SCSI controller (NCR 53C810) is about US$ 80 these days, i doubt any effort in this area would really pay off (unless you're in the business of selling faster CPUs, of course :). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)