Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 20:45:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Pavelcak <gpavelcak@philos.umass.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ECP and EPP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970916204352.4310J-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.96.970916193306.19027A-100000@lessing.oit.umass.edu>
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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
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