>> I have an Iomega Zip drive, which is an external parallel port model. The
>> problem with it is its slowness in Linux. In windows I get at least 160
>> kb/s (read/write) and in Linux I get only 24 kb/s (read/write). I have
>> tried all the parallel port modes (ecp/epp/ecp+epp/standard) with no
>> success. Is it possible to fix this problem ? To make it faster on linux ?
>> Huh.. I'm very disappointed to Linux parallel port support, very slow
>> indeed.. Tell me if you have gotten faster results with this type of zip
>> drive. Should I tell that the kernel is 2.0.33, and the machine is pII 266
>> mhz.
>
>It shouldn't be that slow. How do you know what the data rate really is?
>What are you using to do the timing?
>
>Have you read the ZIP-Drive and ZIP-Install mini howto's?
There is a newer ppa.o that needs to be compiled. I had the source, until
my system crashed. I need someone to please repost where the newest ppa
driver is. It is so much faster than the 4-bit version that exists in 5.0.
MB
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