Connect Profile HD to Mac Plus?

[MOS8_030]

So I have a Profile HD that I use to run my Sun Rem Lisa 2.
Is there a way to connect the Profile drive to my Mac Plus and read/write to the Profile drive?
The Profile drive is parallel I believe so I need a Parallel to scsi or parallel to serial adapter?

 

[ScutBoy]

I think that might be a bridge too far, not just in the physical connectivity, but at the protocol level as well.

I'd love to be proved wrong, though!

 

[MOS8_030]

I think that might be a bridge too far, not just in the physical connectivity, but at the protocol level as well.

I'd love to be proved wrong, though!

I'd like that too.

I've done a bit of searching but found no good leads. I figure if it can be done some one here will know how.

 

[Paralel]

Huh, that is an interesting idea. Anyone here want to take on the task of creating a bridge that allows a Lisa Profile to talk to a Mac?

 

[Iesca]

Is the Profile a serial connected drive?

 

[bibilit]

Is the Profile a serial connected drive?

A parallel one

 

[Iesca]

Hmm, that does make things difficult! Even if you got a Parallel port adapter and got it to work (which would be no small feat, given they were all designed for working with PC printers afaik), someone would still need to write a driver for it...

 

[ScutBoy]

Yes - you need to do some kind of serial to parallel conversion, and then you need to deal with drivers, disk formatting differences, etc.

While I think it might be a fun exercise, and you would learn a lot about both Mac HD20 (serial floppy) protocol and how the heck Macworks made ProFiles work with Mac OS, your "market" for people who actually would need this on a day-to-day basis is vanishingly small.

Given the number of functional ProFiles in the world is constantly shrinking as well...

Still - if somebody _did_ figure it out, I'd definitely give it a try!