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Date:      Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:01:34 -0500
From:      "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
To:        Martin Faxer <gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se>
Cc:        nsouch@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ppbus questions
Message-ID:  <20020623140134.GD81018@over-yonder.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020623101501.GA53454@lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net>
References:  <20020623101501.GA53454@lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net>

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On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 12:15:01PM +0200 I heard the voice of
Martin Faxer, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> i'm trying to write a driver for an old cd-rom drive that you connect
> to the parallel port.  it is a shuttletech "para drive" 525.
> 
> i don't have any driver docs or technical specifications but i believe
> that it uses some kind of a SCSI to parallel chipset.

Perhaps you've already been over this, but have you tried just using (or
altering) the vpo driver?  It already provides something resembling a
SCSI interface for parallel-port ZIP drives; it would seem the logical
place to start.



-- 
Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"

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