#Use PC Tape systems
24-Jul-94 11:06:48
Sb: #157303-#Use PC Tape systems
Fm: Christopher Laprise 70431,2172
To: Robert Comer 72446,656
"I'm very tempted to try this as I have a Jumbo 120 that I took out of my
PC, but I have NO idea where I'd get the info I'd need about the tape
drive to write a driver…"
As far as I know, the Amiga CIA ports (serial, floppy, parallel) can't
match the speed of current IBM-compatible parallel ports. I think this has
been the case since the IBM-AT. The Amiga parallel and floppy ports max
out at 50K/sec, probably too slow for most tape drives.
I think your only hope would be to go trough a more modern parallel port
adapter, like a GVP IOextender.
-Chris