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From: coryc@sequent.UUCP (Cory Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: External hard drive through parallel port
Message-ID: <57194@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 9 Apr 91 17:27:39 GMT
References: <57135@sequent.UUCP>
Reply-To: coryc@crg8.UUCP (Cory Carpenter)
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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In article <57135@sequent.UUCP> coryc@sequent.com (Cory Carpenter) writes:
>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

From coryc@sequent.com  Tue Apr  9 10:22:33 1991
From: Cory Carpenter <coryc@sequent.com>
To: pwong@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: Re: External hard drive through parallel port

Hi Patrick,

I can't promise a translation very soon (if at all), since I'm depending
on the charity of a couple of people here at work who read Japanese.  Also,
I have no great urgency to get this stuff translated, since I can't do 
anything with it until I get hold of a drive to try it out on.

Anyway, here's the full path to the sources, binaries, and documentation:

	ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp  (131.112.16.39)
		directory: fj.binaries.msdos/v003
		files: v003i0090.Z
		       v003i0091.Z
		       v003i0092.Z
		       v003i0093.Z

The files are `compress'ed for transmission, and `uuencode'ed.  The SCSI
version of the software is *91.Z and *92.Z, which need to be edited a
bit and `cat'ed together before `uudecode'ing.  (*90.Z is the SASI
version, and *93.Z is a collection of patches and improvements.)

Good luck!

-coryc

>From pwong@theory.TN.CORNELL.EDU  Tue Apr  9 09:31:42 1991
>To: coryc@gateway.sequent.com
>Subject: Re: External hard drive through parallel port
>Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
>
>Cory:
>
>Glad to see your posting!  I would like very much to receive a copy
>of the translated hard drive info. as I am also looking into opportunities
>to put an ext. hard drive to my T1000SE.  I am still waiting for another
>netter to tell me his experience regarding using a SCSI adaptor thru the
>parallel port (it is a $179 device) together with an ext SCSI drive on his
>T1000 (I think this is the model he has).
>
>By the way, would you please tell me exactly is what directory on
>ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp I can find the original Japanese info EASYHARD*.LZH ?
>Thanx in advance!
>
>Patrick



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