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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 1998 22:41:35 +0000
From:      Nicolas Souchu <Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr>
To:        "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ZIP drive, just for a change
Message-ID:  <19980629224135.42320@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr>
In-Reply-To: <19980622182235.09449@futuresouth.com>; from Matthew D. Fuller on Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 06:22:35PM -0500
References:  <19980618231226.63579@futuresouth.com> <199806220438.VAA03590@antipodes.cdrom.com> <19980622182235.09449@futuresouth.com>

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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 06:22:35PM -0500, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 09:38:33PM -0700, Mike Smith woke me up to tell me:
>> > Any idea what these messages on bootup mean?  -current from a few days
>> > ago, but I've seen them before, too:
>> > ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa
>> > ppc0: SMC FDC37C665GT chipset in ECP mode
>> > ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
>> > vpo0: <Adaptec aic7110 scsi> on ppbus 0
>> > scbus0 at vpo0 bus 0
>> > vpoio_outstr(): unknown transfer mode (6)!
>> > vpoio_outstr(): unknown transfer mode (6)!
>> > vpoio_outstr(): unknown transfer mode (6)!
>> 
>> Is the Zip working?  It looks like the vpo driver isn't grokking some 
>> of the transfer modes that are offered by the ppbus.  There are updates 
>> coming in this area soon, so unless you're hurting, you might just want 
>> to ignore this.
>
>Hmmm...
>That's what it looked like to me.  This was working, BTW, before when I
>had -STABLE on this machine, with the ppbus patches.  Any idea what the
>differences might have been?

The ZIP drive supports only NIBBLE, PS2 or EPP mode (which aren't found at
bootup). Should be fixed with next updates. At least, you may try to force
a mode, NIBBLE for example (flags 0x1).

-- 
Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr
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