From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 8 16:19: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 846BE37B6E5 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:18:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [12.21.241.164] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id sa050432 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:18:43 -0500 Received: from Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA00449; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:18:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) From: Walter Brameld To: J McKitrick , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parallel port Zip drive and EPP mode Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 19:09:58 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <20000308171409.A43398@freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000308171409.A43398@freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00030819183007.00362@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, J McKitrick wrote: > Here is a concern i have. I had a hard time getting my parallel port > zip to work under 3.4. It turned out there may be a bug in my bios > that required me to change from EPP mode to standard bi-directional. > Walter noted that EPP mode worked OK for him under 3.4, but did not > under -current. Oddly enough, EPP mode worked fine under win95, so > there doesn't seem to be some innate incompatiblity between my laptop > and Zip drives in EPP mode. Is this worth looking into? > -- > -=> jm <=- > ------------------------------------------------------- > The opinions expressed in this message are the opinions of the mail > program only, and not of the writer, his employer, or > freebsd-uk.eu.org Let me try to add a little info to that..... When I installed my zip on 3.4-STABLE, it worked right off the bat so I didn't pay any attention as to what dmesg said about the drive or the parallel port. I wish I had so I could provide the information for completeness. Initially under 4.0-CURRENT, my port came up NIBBLE and the drive as EPP 1.9. ON Fritz Heinrichmeyer's (Hope I got that right) advice, I changed the BIOS setting of my port to EPP 1.7, my only other choice. Here is the dmesg that resulted: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Mar 7 16:17:46 EST 2000 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWKERN Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (463.91-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ff <- snip -> ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 vpo0: on ppbus0 imm0: EPP 1.9 mode sbc0: at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0 sbc0: setting card to irq 5, drq 1, 5 pcm0: on sbc0 unknown0: at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0 unknown1: at port 0x620-0x623 on isa0 ad0: 17206MB [34960/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 ad1: 8693MB [17662/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA33 acd0: CDROM at ata1-master using WDMA2 da0 at vpo0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 96C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a cd9660: Joliet Extension The Mobo is an ABIT BX6 Revision 2. Hope this may be of some help. -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: Where the hell am I? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message