I recently purchased a Backpack high density drive which is designed
to run off of the parallel port. I cannot get the computer to
recognize its existance (power supply and cables check out). I am
using a GVP286 and running MS/DOS 5.0 and GVP's PC286 and the
Backpack software (which as far as I can tell is installed
correctly). If anyone can help I would appreciate some suggestions
as to how to get this to run.
Ken,
Are you trying to run it off the Amiga parallel port? Someone told me a dealer
had tried to sell them this, but I can't see how it could work. The LPT1
program assigns the parallel port to the PC, and it's not meant to handle
Amiga-to-PC data transfer.
If anybody has had success with this, I'd like to hear about it…
Marion
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