Schooner wrote: > Hi > > This was a vexed question for me after I made a pendant and need more IO > to work it. > > None of the Parport IO cards I tried would not work at all, the problem > was getting them to work in EPP with pins 2-9 as inputs. > You don't need EPP mode to get the data pins as inputs. Try PS/2 (bidir) mode, and there is a command-line option to the EMC parport driver to set these pins as inputs when loading it with the loadrt command. > > > What I did find however, was that 2 of the cards recommended (SIIG and > Sun1188) would not work in input mode no matter what I did. > The older SIIG cards need a Windows 95 utility to set the port mode into the on-board ROM. Once set, then it will power up in that mode without special attention.
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