> 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?
Dave
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