From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 28 0:55:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63EE337B719 for ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:55:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mpumford@mpc-data.co.uk) Received: from mpc-data.demon.co.uk ([158.152.55.245] helo=burton.mpc-data.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14iBjQ-000OGP-0A; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:55:12 +0000 Received: from lion.mpc-data.co.uk (root@lion.mpc-data.co.uk [192.150.92.1]) by burton.mpc-data.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA19584; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:54:41 +0100 Received: from lion.mpc-data.co.uk (IDENT:mpumford@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lion.mpc-data.co.uk (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA24865; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:54:37 +0100 Message-Id: <200103280854.JAA24865@lion.mpc-data.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.3 To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any problems with parallel port zip plus? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:52:17 BST." <20010327165217.A58705@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:54:36 +0100 From: Mike Pumford Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > | I did a CVSUP to 4.3-RC at the weekend and my 250mb parallel zip was > | still probed just fine when the system booted. I'll play around with it > | this evening and get back to you. > > If you have PS2 mode, please enable it, and let me know if it connects in > PS2 mode rather than nibble. > > Okay. I tried a selection of the options presented by my BIOS. BIOS Setting FreeBSD reports ZIP+ mode Working Normal. EPP/NIBBLE EPP NO (vpo0 timeouts) EPP+ECP(EPP1..9) EPP/ECP/SPP/NIBBLE EPP YES ECP EPP/ECP/SPP/NIBBLE PS2 YES The PS2 mode used more CPU than EPP but worked without problems. I'm glad I looked at this. Previously my BIOS was only configured for EPP+ECP(EPP1..7) and was using PS2 mode to talk to the drive. I'm now using the EPP1..9 setting which allows FreeBSD to use EPP which is a lot more multitasking friendly. I didn't seem to be able to get FreeBSD to select nibble mode under any circumstances. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message