Re: Parallel port Zip drive
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 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Parallel port Zip drive
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. -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh -- Walter Brameld Join the Army. Meet interesting people. Kill them. TANSTAAFL To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Parallel port Zip drive
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 fixed it. Guess if I hadn't been so sleepy last night I might have noticed the settings. --Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh -- Walter Brameld Join the Army. Meet interesting people. Kill them. TANSTAAFL To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Parallel port Zip drive and EPP mode
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. Walter noted that EPP mode worked OK for him under 3.4, but did not under -current. Oddly enough, EPP mode worked fine under win95, so there doesn't seem to be some innate incompatiblity between my laptop and Zip drives in EPP mode. Is this worth looking into? -- -= jm =- --- The opinions expressed in this message are the opinions of the mail program only, and not of the writer, his employer, or freebsd-uk.eu.org Let me try to add a little info to that. When I installed my zip on 3.4-STABLE, it worked right off the bat so I didn't pay any attention as to what dmesg said about the drive or the parallel port. I wish I had so I could provide the information for completeness. Initially under 4.0-CURRENT, my port came up NIBBLE and the drive as EPP 1.9. ON Fritz Heinrichmeyer's (Hope I got that right) advice, I changed the BIOS setting of my port to EPP 1.7, my only other choice. Here is the dmesg that resulted: Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Mar 7 16:17:46 EST 2000 root@:/usr/src/sys/compile/NEWKERN Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon (463.91-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,XMM - snip - ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode plip0: PLIP network interface on ppbus0 lpt0: Printer on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: Parallel I/O on ppbus0 vpo0: Iomega Matchmaker Parallel to SCSI interface on ppbus0 imm0: EPP 1.9 mode sbc0: Creative SB16/SB32 at port 0x220-0x22f,0x330-0x331,0x388-0x38b irq 5 drq 1,5 on isa0 sbc0: setting card to irq 5, drq 1, 5 pcm0: SB DSP 4.16 on sbc0 unknown0: Game at port 0x200-0x207 on isa0 unknown1: Cqm at port 0x620-0x623 on isa0 ad0: 17206MB WDC AC418000D [34960/16/63] at ata0-master using UDMA33 ad1: 8693MB WDC AC29100D [17662/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA33 acd0: CDROM BCD-48SB CD-ROM at ata1-master using WDMA2 da0 at vpo0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 da0: IOMEGA ZIP 100 PLUS J.66 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 96C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad1s1a cd9660: Joliet Extension The Mobo is an ABIT BX6 Revision 2. Hope this may be of some help. -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter:Where the hell am I? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios
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 old chipsets (or old compatible modes) do not always support it. Your drive runs really faster too, doesn't it? -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax:987-355 http://www-es.fernuni-hagen.de/~jfh To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios
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 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 trivial compared to the effort of using inb/outb to poll a port. -- Doug Rabson Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios
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 trivial compared to the effort of using inb/outb to poll a port. No, but each time function calls are introduced in the ppbus framework (initially to isolate ppbus layers and now with newbus) some parallel port stop working. Certainly more a timing issue than a performance issue I think. But some good hardware never failed, some bad hardware fails with either slow (486) or fast processors. -- Doug RabsonMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD - Turning PCs into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
