From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 9 23:53:10 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14842 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:53:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from www0d.netaddress.usa.net (www0d.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.24.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA14826 for ; Sat, 9 Jan 1999 23:53:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from slpalmer@netscape.net) Received: (qmail 12172 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Jan 1999 07:52:23 -0000 Message-ID: <19990110075223.12171.qmail@www0d.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.24.33 by www0d via web-mailer(R2.6) on Sun Jan 10 07:52:23 GMT 1999 Date: 10 Jan 99 07:52:23 America/Fort_Wayne From: Stephen Palmer To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, son@teaser.fr, "José" "Mª" Alcaide Subject: Re: Request fo help with Zip Drive on vpo0 in -current CC: Stephen Palmer , gp@oitunix.oit.umass.edu, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id XAA14829 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry if this is redundant, but I haven't seen any new posts on this since 1/1/99. I am still showing this problem (vpo0 detected, da0 and scbus not detected) with sources current as of 1/9/99 5PM CST. Any help would be appreciated. (I'm almost to the point of bowing down to whomever can solve this! I wish I could code as well as report :-( ) Stephen L. Palmer slpalmer@netscape.net son@teaser.fr wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 11:48:15AM +0100, José Mª Alcaide wrote: > > > >Nicolas Souchu wrote: > >> > >> Sorry, I'm wrong, it's ok here with December, 22th. So I can't really > >> help you from there :( > >> > >> You may retry previous sys/ releases Dec, 1st, Nov, 15th to find out the bogus > >> submit. > >> > > > >Parallel ZIP doesn't work here, using sources CVSupped today (Dec 28th). > >Perhaps the cause isn't in the ppc/ppbus/vpo code; the problem > >I see is that da0 isn't initialized, so I think that scbus0 doesn't > >get attached to vpo0 for some reason. Some parts of the CAM code > >have changed in the last month... > > > >These are my kernel config lines related to the parallel bus: > > > >controller scbus0 # Lo necesita el ZIP paralelo. > >device da0 # Y esto también. > >controller ppbus0 # Bus paralelo > >controller vpo0 at ppbus? # ZIP paralelo > >device nlpt0 at ppbus? # Impresora > >controller ppc0 at isa? port ? tty irq 7 flags 0x04 > > > >I think that this config is OK. I have no SCSI adapter in this > >machine. These are the boot messages (boot -v): > > > >ppc: parallel port found at 0x378 > >ppc0: > >ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x4 on isa > >ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP-only) in EPP mode (EPP 1.9) > >nlpt0: on ppbus 0 > >nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port > >vpo0: on ppbus 0 > >vpo0: EPP 1.9 mode > > > >After that, there is no mention to any "da" device. > >This is very odd, indeed. > > Ooops, I've added some detection code October, 31th. It may break your > hardware. Detection of your ZIP is done in NIBBLE mode, then according to your > boot flags, EPP mode is required for transfer. > > First, try to set your bootflags to 0x3 to force PS2/NIBBLE mode and see > if it works. Then try 0x1. > > Secondly, set 0x44 to your bootflags to force your chipset generic and > avoid NS chips detection code execution. > > I completly forgot all this... please, give me some feedback. > > -- > nsouch@teaser.fr / nsouch@freebsd.org > FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org --- | Stephen L. Palmer | Sprint Paranet slpalmer@netscape.net \|/ slpalmer@sprintparanet.com "There are thousands of intelligent species in the Universe, and they all own cats." -Unknown ____________________________________________________________________ More than just email--Get your FREE Netscape WebMail account today at http://home.netscape.com/netcenter/mail To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message