From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 7 9:36:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from napalm.plano.sterling.com (napalm.plano.sterling.com [138.42.1.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D715137BE68 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:36:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alan.edmonds@sterling.com) Received: from sterling.com (CD27T.plano.sterling.com [10.1.54.234]) by napalm.plano.sterling.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA29547; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:35:00 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <38EE0E33.7906408@sterling.com> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 11:34:59 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Walter Brameld Cc: Andy Georges , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-4.0 and Parallel Port Zip 100 Drive (fwd) References: <38EDE355.8174A772@sterling.com> <00040710221202.01489@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Walter Brameld wrote: > > 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: I was wrong. On my Latitude (laprtop), it offers ECP mode, not EPP mode. I don't have the dmesg output handy; I'll boot it later and see what it says. My zip drive is an older model with just a parallel port. Model Z100P2 is says on the bottom. -- Alan Edmonds, KB5ZUY Sterling Software M/S 132 Phone: +1-972-801-6485 5800 Tennyson Pkwy. Email: alan.edmonds@sterling.com Plano, TX, USA 75024 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message