Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucbvax!unisoft!fai!sequent!coryc From: coryc@sequent.com (Cory Carpenter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops Subject: Re: External hard drive through parallel port Summary: FTP source for "EASYhard" software Message-ID: <57135@sequent.UUCP> Date: 8 Apr 91 20:35:41 GMT Sender: coryc@sequent.UUCP Reply-To: coryc@sequent.com (Cory Carpenter) Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc Lines: 36 >nemossan@uitec.ac.jp (Sakurao NEMOTO) writes: >>In article >> ferdie@coyote.datalog.com (fred jarvis) writes: >>Does anyone have any experience using an external hard drive running >>off the parallel port? (I've asked this before & gotten no response, >>so there are apparently few of you using these things.) > > >"EasyHard" is Hard-disk-drive software besides the explanation how to connect >SASI/SCSI-hard-drive to the parallel-port of J3100-series. It worked well. >But these days I don't use it, because wired-laptops dones not coicide my >opinion. {^_^} > >J3100-series is for Japanese-version of T3100-series from Toshiba, but I can >find no reason not to work on IBM-machines. > > > EASYHD3.LZH(21) 90-01-13 01:56:16 37905 for SASI-drive > EASYHARD.LZH(21) 90-02-24 01:04:50 38652 for SCSI-drive > EH13PAT.LZH(21) 90-05-07 01:02:44 12354 patches for update > >Unfortunately all the documents are written in Japanese-Shift-JIS-code. Someone later asked about anonymous FTP sites for this software. I did some looking around, and was able to find it at the following site: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp 131.112.16.39 I managed to find an X-term application (kterm) which is capable of displaying shift-JIS code, and looked the documentation over. Wow. The only thing I can make out is a couple of cable pinouts... the rest is (of course) Japanese to me! I *may* be able to find someone to translate it, and if so, will try to make the translated version of the documentation available (assuming there's any interest in it). -coryc