Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:33:25 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any interest in parallel-port Zip drive support for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <19970418133325.LX44496@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <33571483.41C67EA6@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at>; from Helmut Wirth on Apr 18, 1997 08:28:19 %2B0200 References: <373.861323829@time.cdrom.com> <33571483.41C67EA6@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at>
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As Helmut Wirth wrote: > I would need two > different kernels, one to support my ZIP and one to support the > printer. For this reason I did not use the driver. That's not really necessary, i think. You should at least be able to have one kernel with both, where one of them is disabled by default. By booting with -c, you should then be able to select what you want. However, you're right, the arbitration between both drivers didn't look very well last time i've been looking. That's why i wrote here that a sort of ppa(4) controller driver should be written (name shamelessly borrowed from AIX, `parallel port adapter'), with lpt(4), lp(4) and zip(4) layered on top. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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