From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 16:43:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA27228 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rfd1.oit.umass.edu (mailhub.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA27218 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 16:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lessing.oit.umass.edu by rfd1.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.1-8 #20973) with ESMTP id <0EGMKJXHY00MOK@rfd1.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:43:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by lessing.oit.umass.edu (8.8.3/8.8.6) with SMTP id TAA12193 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:43:08 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 19:43:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: ECP and EPP? To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have noticed on my ISA I/O board and in the BIOS Setup for my on-board controllers that I can set the parallel port to standard, ECP or EPP. I checked some archives, but it seems that everyone else already knows what these things mean. Can you tell me what these different settings offer and which one I'm better off with for a parallel Iomega Zip and for laplink connection from my desktop to laptop. I want to have two parallel ports, one for each of these. If I print at all, it will be rare. I was thinking about staying current on one of these machines and stable on the other, if that matters. I haven't decided how to arrange this yet. I'll be starting with 2.2.2-Release on my desktop and going on from there. Thanks. Greg