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Date:      Sat, 17 Jan 1998 21:49:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Frank Griffith <frankg@idfw.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Printer Port LPT2
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117214825.6065U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BD22B2.07BEA6A0@dal12-17.ppp.iadfw.net>

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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Frank Griffith wrote:

> As a new user of UNIX and FreeBSD I am still probing my way
> thru the fundamentals.
> 
> When my system boots FreeBSD 2.2.5, the following is
> displayed in the hardware setups:
> 
> lpt0  at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
> lpt0: Interrupt driven port
> lpt1  at 0x378-0x37f on isa
> lpt1: not probed due to I/O address conflict with lpt0 at 0x378
> 
> I assume that lpt0 is in actuality lpt1 and lpt1 is actually lpt2:

Yes, the system ports are 0-based versus 1-based for DOS.

> 
> And this conflict/error is harmless. Correct?

Yes, but you can disable lpt1 if you type `-c' at the boot: prompt. that
will at least quiet the message.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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