Spare-Flair
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Saw this on another forum.
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USB Stick into Parallel Port! Haha!
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Saw this on another forum.
silent-circuit
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Does that... seriously function? That's awesome. I want to go do it now, only I don't think I have any machines with parallel ports left. Damn.
Red Squirrel
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Awesome. I want to try that now lol
Spare-Flair
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I'm not sure if it is really working. How does the Parallel port supply power?
silent-circuit
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I think both parallel and serial had pins for power. I know serial did at least. That said, if that's the only problem you could still connect a powered hub to it.
Appears to be legit, this is the chip which seems to have the stuff necessary to do this:
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/ICs/FT2232H.htm
http://www.ftdichip.com/Products/ICs/FT2232H.htm
Red Squirrel
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The only thing I don't get is, how does the computer know how to handle that? I thought LPT was strictly for printers, and not just general data transmission, or does it still somehow pickup as a storage device?
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Oh geez this is a riot! Genius! I can see this guy sitting around at his desk with a lot of bullshit adaptor laying around and he started pluggin one into the other and before he knew it VIOLA! he had Usb-->Parallel Nice!
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He needs a USB Ethernet adapter to connect to the iSCSI SAN. Haha
lpt was used for just about everything that USB is now.. i Had a parallel Jazz drive once upon a time ago.. But also printers, scanners & whatever else existed back then..