From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 06:48:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA03244 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.IAEhv.nl (root@news.IAEhv.nl [194.151.64.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id GAA03239 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 06:48:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from truk.brandinnovators.com (uucp@localhost) by news.IAEhv.nl (8.6.13/1.63) with IAEhv.nl; pid 8919 on Fri, 18 Apr 1997 15:48:37 +0200; id PAA08919 efrom: hans@truk.brandinnovators.com; eto: hackers@freebsd.org Received: by truk.brandinnovators.com (8.7.5/BI96070101) for <> id JAA28593; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:55:53 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199704180755.JAA28593@truk.brandinnovators.com> From: hans@brandinnovators.com (Hans Zuidam) Subject: Re: Any interest in parallel-port Zip drive support for FreeBSD? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:55:53 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <19970418034443.PL06012@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 18, 97 03:44:43 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > J Wunsch wrote: > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > http://www.prism.uvsq.fr/~son/ppa3.html > > It's apparently very slow, but functional. > The biggest problem with this driver is that the architecture of the > parallel port driver is now totally clumsy. It has already been > problematical to add the PLIP functionality, but now with the ZIP > driver, all bets are off. Maybe the parallel port (lpt) driver needs a lptsw[] like the tty driver's linew[]? Regards, Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans@brandinnovators.com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138