If you are unsure, check this in the oracle virtual box application. If you followed the tutorial from earlier, you will have named this as Windows XP. My VM Name must be replaced with the name of your virtual machine. VBoxManage modifyvm "My VM Name" -lpt1 0x378 7 VBoxManage modifyvm "My VM Name" -lptmode1 "LPT4" Note that the first line is a generic link to the correct folder yours may be different depending on the name of the drive that Oracle is installed on, so change accordingly. The 1st navigates to the folder containing the settings, the 2nd and 3rd allow your virtual OS to control the parallel port. To summarise, you will need to open the command prompt application search command prompt in start menu, and execute 3 commands. I found a tutorial to do this in the link below. For USB devices, this is very easy as the GUI graphics user interface contains an easy interface to do this, however for the parallel port, the settings are embedded into program files, as parallel ports are not commonly used. This involves changing the settings on Oracle Virtual Box. To communicate with devices such as USB storage on the XP virtual OS, we need to configure the virtualbox to allow the XP virtual OS to use it. The virtual OS is still just an application running on your usual operating system. Step 3: Configure the parallel port to the XP Virtual OSĬlose the virtual OS now, and go back to your normal OS. According to the tutorial, this will last for 30 days, as it does not have a valid product key. Here is a tutorial to demonstrate how to do this, using Windows XP MODE provided free by Microsoft. This takes a while up to an hour and several steps. You will first need to download the virtual box software, which is completely free and open source, link below.Īfter installing this, you will need to install the Windows XP OS onto the virtual box. For this reason, I installed a windows XP virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox. Several tutorials I found stated that new versions of windows 7 and Above? are not compatible with parallel port devices such as the iomega zip 100, even with a parallel port PCI card. Step 2: Installing a Windows XP virtual machine When opening the properties of the device, there should be no driver error. Once installed, your computer should detect the parallel port, but not the iomega device, as shown in the image below with the LPT3 device. Upon arrival, and installing the PCI card, you will need to install the driver for this, either by using the disk provided, or by obtaining the driver online. Check the spec of your motherboard to determine if you can use either. If you do not have a PCIe slot, I believe there are alternative Parallel Port PCI cards which fit into a PCI slot. Note that PCI and PCIe express are different. This model fits into a PCIe 1 slot.īE CAREFUL before purchasing to ensure that your motherboard does indeed have a PCIe1 slot. See the link to the model i purchased below. Instead, I used a PCIe parallel port card, purchased on ebay for around £8/$10. Step 1: Obtaining parallel port interface hardwareįirstly, i found that a parallel port to USB adaptor would not work, as these are designed for parallel port printers and do not have bidirectional comms. Make sure you use an anti static bracelet when installing the PCI card, and be careful when installing any software to avoid viruses. I did a lot of research on this and could not find a complete tutorial, just many dead ends.Īfter using several related tutorials not specific to the iomega i managed to find a way.ĭisclaimer: I'm not a software expert and I have limited knowledge with parallel ports/LPT devices I'm 21 at the time of writing, so this is my first time using them, however I'm a Graduate Electrical/Electronic/Embedded Engineer so I have some knowledge and may be able to answer some questions.Īlso a prior warning: this tutorial shouldn't be too difficult, but I'm not responsible for any damage done to your computers if anything should go wrong. Just thought I'd share a tutorial as I recently managed to accomplish this.
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