From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 16 20:45:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id UAA10653 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:45:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts7-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA10647 for ; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:45:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA04378; Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:45:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Pavelcak cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECP and EPP? In-Reply-To: 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 On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > 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. One of these modes makes sure that bidirectional mode is enabled, and another is a high-speed interface that uses IRQs and DMAs. I think that enabling ECP is okay. You'll have to check with laplink's docs; if it works okay now, you can try fiddling the settings but it may not make much of a difference. FreeBSD could care less. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo