On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:46:17 -1000 al plant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... > The BIOs setting was the fault. > > I cleared it by disabling the BIOs internal motherboard settings and > installing a printer card that I set to run at IRQ 7 - 0278 . > This brought up the zip drive with no problem. > > Then I removed the card and reset the internal motherboard back to IRQ 7 > and 0378. > This brought up the zip drive with no problem. I did set the BIOs to EPP > as you suggested. Great! Please post your solution to the freebsd questions list, because I know there are others who have experienced this problem. I wonder if using the extra card is a necessary part of the solution. Do you think just changing the port address would do the trick? I have read that some systems ignore the EPP setting with a port setting of 3BC (original parallel port 1 on the monochrome video card), and in such cases changing it to 278 or 378 does the trick. -- _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Gary Dunn _/ _/ Open Slate Project _/ _/ http://openslate.sourceforge.net/ _/ _/ http://www.aloha.com/~knowtree/ _/ _/ Honolulu _/ _/ registered Linux user #273809 _/ _/ _/ _/ This tagline is umop apisdn. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/