Re: Why no third party solutions?

[george@cs.nps.navy.mil (Robert George)]

> > There are a number of parallel port hard drives for a reasonable
> > price.  You could always get a SCSI PCMCIA card and then any SCSI
> > drive could be your bud.  And of course, there is the Colorado
> > Trakker and some other parallel port tape drives.  You should have
> > any problems as long as you're sticking with DOS/Win...

Hey guys, you're forgetting one thing: the bandwidth of a PC's serial port
is 960K bytes/sec. SCSI is 5M bytes/sec, and Fast SCSI-2 is 10M bytes/sec.
Your're going to take a serious performance hit if you put a hard drive
on your serial port.  It would be great for tape backups though.


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