From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 23 7: 1:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hardtime.linuxman.net (hardtime.linuxman.net [66.147.26.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0975237B403; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 07:01:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mortis.over-yonder.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hardtime.linuxman.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5ND77B28002; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 08:07:09 -0500 Received: by mortis.over-yonder.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 01A131F06; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:01:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:01:34 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" To: Martin Faxer Cc: nsouch@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ppbus questions Message-ID: <20020623140134.GD81018@over-yonder.net> References: <20020623101501.GA53454@lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020623101501.GA53454@lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i-fullermd.1 X-Editor: vi X-OS: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message