Here is the "deal". Most new parallel ports are not fully compliant with IEEE 1284; they are compliant enough to connect your PC to a printer with a parallel or Centronics interface. They are designed just to drive printers and not all of the data lines (pins) are enabled. In addition, there is a voltage requirement too (+/- 5VDC) and very few are compliant with that either, making using them to control a SDR-1000 a bit of a challenge (assuming a 32-bit OS, of course).
When you tell support you are "bit banging" the parallel interface, their 20 something eyes glaze over and they are looking on the App Store for an app for that. :-) -Tim -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Don Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 2:28 PM To: Flex Edge Subject: [FlexEdge] Parallel Ports Steve I've tried both the SIIG 2S1P "Combo-Value" P/N JJ-P21111S-5 www.siig.com and Locrest 1-P, P/N SY-PCI10004 www.locrest.com So far SIIG has been the most responsive when I informed them that the driver does not work. They ask me which printer I was using and I explained that I was using BCD output to drive relays - (DDUtil) Well I'm not sure but I think the tech. had a blank look on his face. Anyway the e-mails have been going on for about 6 weeks and nothing resolved - I'm guessing I'm the only one saying there is a problem - so I don't expect much. According to device manager the SIIG chip is by MosChip but I do not know which one. The Locrest board uses a IOC 835ER-AA I currently have the SIIG board in the system as that seems the most promising (it works with win XP- and I have a dual boot system). As I indicated I currently am using this board with DDUtil. I do not know of any other software to try the board with. If you can suggest something I would be happy to try it and report back. Don kd6hq _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
