Parallel port Zip drive

2000-03-08 Thread Walter Brameld
I hope this hasn't already been pounded to death, checked the archives with no results. I just upgraded to 4.0 and everything works fine so far except the zip drive. Here's my dmesg: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of

Re: Parallel port Zip drive

2000-03-08 Thread F. Heinrichmeyer
It works if you can switch your parallel port to EPP (???) mode in the bios. Transfer speed raises also under windows with this configuration btw. -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355

Re: Parallel port Zip drive

2000-03-08 Thread Walter Brameld
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: It works if you can switch your parallel port to EPP (???) mode in the bios. Transfer speed raises also under windows with this configuration btw. Thank you for the reply, I will try that. What I find odd is that it worked fine on 3.4-STABLE.

Parallel port Zip drive and EPP mode

2000-03-08 Thread J McKitrick
Here is a concern i have. I had a hard time getting my parallel port zip to work under 3.4. It turned out there may be a bug in my bios that required me to change from EPP mode to standard bi-directional. Walter noted that EPP mode worked OK for him under 3.4, but did not under -current. Oddly

Re: Parallel port Zip drive

2000-03-08 Thread Walter Brameld
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, Walter Brameld wrote: On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: It works if you can switch your parallel port to EPP (???) mode in the bios. Transfer speed raises also under windows with this configuration btw. Thanks again for the advice. For the record, that

Re: Parallel port Zip drive and EPP mode

2000-03-08 Thread Walter Brameld
On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, J McKitrick wrote: Here is a concern i have. I had a hard time getting my parallel port zip to work under 3.4. It turned out there may be a bug in my bios that required me to change from EPP mode to standard bi-directional.

Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios

2000-01-22 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:26:08PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: Subject says all! This evening i will try a patch for the ata driver so maybe all my hardware at home will work again with current when certain patches are applied. Nice. The newbus architecture introduces overhead in I/O and

Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios

2000-01-22 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Nicolas Souchu wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:26:08PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: Subject says all! This evening i will try a patch for the ata driver so maybe all my hardware at home will work again with current when certain patches are applied. Nice. The

Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios

2000-01-22 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 10:03:25AM +, Doug Rabson wrote: Nice. The newbus architecture introduces overhead in I/O and old chipsets (or old compatible modes) do not always support it. Your drive runs really faster too, doesn't it? Have you measured the overhead? I think it should be

Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios

2000-01-20 Thread F. Heinrichmeyer
Subject says all! This evening i will try a patch for the ata driver so maybe all my hardware at home will work again with current when certain patches are applied. -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166

Re: no more parallel port zip drive

2000-01-18 Thread Nicolas Souchu
On Sun, Jan 16, 2000 at 03:21:16PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote: My parallel port zip-drive stopped working this weekend with the new ppc code. There is no printer attached: Hmm, any chance to change parallel port bios setting on your MB? -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

no more parallel port zip drive

2000-01-16 Thread F. Heinrichmeyer
My parallel port zip-drive stopped working this weekend with the new ppc code. There is no printer attached: Here are the relevant parts of dmesg and the kernel config file. (First what CPU etc.) CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (262.36-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD"