Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2000 14:27:13 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@one.net> To: Jim Manley <jmanley@metronet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zip Drive Weirdness Message-ID: <20000206142713.A25922@evil.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000206092657.00a34580@127.0.0.1>; from jmanley@metronet.com on Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 10:36:16AM -0500 References: <4.2.2.20000206092657.00a34580@127.0.0.1>
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--+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Your ZIP drive may have a short in it somewhere, this is usually indicative of the box not starting. Typically the power supply has a detector in it that turns off the connection if there is a large amount of current going over the line, so you don't short your shit out. It could also be a problem with your parallel port, make sure it is set to EPP mode, or bi-directional. Sometimes devices that send data over the parallel port at boot can lock up the BIOS if it's not expecting it, there may also be a new BIOS upgrade for your mobo. I know that when I switched to BSD I fell behind on those BIOS upgrades because I didn't have DOS. --cokane Jim Manley had the audacity to say: > I installed a parallel port zip drive on my 3.4-stable BSD box. With the > zip drive powered up and connected to the FBSD box, the FBSD box will > not start (Turn on the power, the box doesn't boot). I can hear the power > supply start up but nothing else happens. >=20 > If I power down the zip drive, the FBSD box fires up normally. >=20 > Any one experienced this one yet? >=20 > My box is a P166, 32M RAM, 2 2GB disks. It has an adaptec 1542 scsi cont= roller > attached to a tower with 5 CDs and a 4mm HP DAT drive. The OS version is > FBSD 3.4-stable last cvsup'd in mid January. >=20 > Regards, >=20 > Jim >=20 --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE4ncsQERViMObJ880RAQlXAKCaNCHCxf87IuWIb/LNiomGvj+AxACgnkRV OXmjc9sP4ROIKmNxt0jUwL8= =Ux8L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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