From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 04:44:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA27465 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 04:44:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA27455 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 04:44:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id NAA03625 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:44:40 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA04363; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 13:33:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970418133325.LX44496@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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? References: <373.861323829@time.cdrom.com> <33571483.41C67EA6@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <33571483.41C67EA6@zerberus.hai.siemens.co.at>; from Helmut Wirth on Apr 18, 1997 08:28:19 +0200 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)