From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 23 7:17:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net (c164-147.pro.thalamus.se [212.31.164.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AD837B404; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 07:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net (localhost.spectrum.fearmuffs.net [127.0.0.1]) by lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5NEHGXD054210; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:17:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se) Received: (from redpixel@localhost) by lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5NEHFW4054209; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:17:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se) Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:17:15 +0200 From: Martin Faxer To: "Matthew D. Fuller" Cc: nsouch@FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ppbus questions Message-ID: <20020623141715.GA54082@lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net> References: <20020623101501.GA53454@lockdown.spectrum.fearmuffs.net> <20020623140134.GD81018@over-yonder.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020623140134.GD81018@over-yonder.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i 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 2002.06.23 09:01:34 +0000, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > 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. yeah, i had a look at the vpo driver to start with, and tried to use it but it didn't detect anything. my current code is basically a vpo but with s/vpo/epsa/ and everything commented out except for the probe routine which i've modified. :) however, i became a little bit suspicious when the drive didn't respond at all like i'd expected it to, so i opened it up, and sure enough my naive assumption of it being an EPSA-2 was wrong. it appears that it's actually an EPEZ parallel to IDE chip... i'll go search the internet a bit and see if i can find anything resembling a driver or a data sheet for it, if not i'll probably give up :) thanks for your response! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message