From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 7 7:22:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B2A937B858 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 07:22:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.76] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id ya759588 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:22:29 -0400 From: Walter Brameld To: Alan Edmonds , Andy Georges Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.0 and Parallel Port Zip 100 Drive (fwd) Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 10:13:40 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <38EDE355.8174A772@sterling.com> In-Reply-To: <38EDE355.8174A772@sterling.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00040710221202.01489@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Alan Edmonds wrote: > I tried a parallel zip drive on a Dell Latitude CP (older model). > The BIOS only lists Disabled, BiDirectional, and EPP mode. The > kernel found the port, but I got a bunch of vp0: timeout messages > later during the boot. > > Could zip drive failures be related to not having a SCSI > controller? The zip drive works fine in my other machine > (that has a SCSI controller). > > -- > Alan Edmonds, KB5ZUY Sterling Software Don't know if that's a laptop, and again I'm running on a desktop. I do not have SCSI on my machine and ZIP works fine. The ZIP drive has an internal SCSI with a parallel to SCSI adaptor. Again, did you try it with EPP mode? If this might help, here is the relevant output from dmesg: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 1 23:33:30 EST 2000 .. .. .. ppc0: at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x4 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP-only) in EPP mode (EPP 1.9) plip0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 vpo0: on ppbus0 imm0: EPP 1.9 mode .. .. .. 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) -- 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: And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message