Re: any problems with parallel port zip plus?
| I did a CVSUP to 4.3-RC at the weekend and my 250mb parallel zip was | still probed just fine when the system booted. I'll play around with it | this evening and get back to you. If you have PS2 mode, please enable it, and let me know if it connects in PS2 mode rather than nibble. Okay. I tried a selection of the options presented by my BIOS. BIOS Setting FreeBSD reportsZIP+ mode Working Normal. EPP/NIBBLE EPP NO (vpo0 timeouts) EPP+ECP(EPP1..9) EPP/ECP/SPP/NIBBLE EPP YES ECP EPP/ECP/SPP/NIBBLE PS2 YES The PS2 mode used more CPU than EPP but worked without problems. I'm glad I looked at this. Previously my BIOS was only configured for EPP+ECP(EPP1..7) and was using PS2 mode to talk to the drive. I'm now using the EPP1..9 setting which allows FreeBSD to use EPP which is a lot more multitasking friendly. I didn't seem to be able to get FreeBSD to select nibble mode under any circumstances. Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
parallel port zip
Has any progress been made on the parallel port zip problem? jm -- --- Jonathon McKitrick -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am a bomb technician. If you see me running, try to keep up. --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD-4.0 and Parallel Port Zip 100 Drive (fwd)
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Alan Edmonds wrote: I tried a parallel zip drive on a Dell Latitude CP (older model). The BIOS only lists Disabled, BiDirectional, and EPP mode. The kernel found the port, but I got a bunch of vp0: timeout messages later during the boot. Could zip drive failures be related to not having a SCSI controller? The zip drive works fine in my other machine (that has a SCSI controller). -- Alan Edmonds, KB5ZUY Sterling Software Don't know if that's a laptop, and again I'm running on a desktop. I do not have SCSI on my machine and ZIP works fine. The ZIP drive has an internal SCSI with a parallel to SCSI adaptor. Again, did you try it with EPP mode? If this might help, here is the relevant output from dmesg: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 1 23:33:30 EST 2000 .. .. .. ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x4 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP-only) in EPP mode (EPP 1.9) 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 .. .. .. 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) -- 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:And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD-4.0 and Parallel Port Zip 100 Drive (fwd)
Hello, Again, did you try it with EPP mode? If this might help, here is the relevant output from dmesg: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 1 23:33:30 EST 2000 .. .. .. ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x4 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP-only) in EPP mode (EPP 1.9) 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 why does it say imm0 ? with me it just says vpo0: Iomega VPI0 ... i cannot find any reference to imm0 in the LINT file or is that because I'm running 4.0-RELEASE instead of -STABLE? andy == Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ghent Krijgslaan 281 - S9, B - 9000 Ghent, Belgium Phone: +32-9-264.47.66, Fax: +32-9-264.49.95 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD-4.0 and Parallel Port Zip 100 Drive (fwd)
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Andy Georges wrote: Hello, Again, did you try it with EPP mode? If this might help, here is the relevant output from dmesg: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 1 23:33:30 EST 2000 .. .. .. ppc0: Parallel port at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x4 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP-only) in EPP mode (EPP 1.9) 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 why does it say imm0 ? with me it just says vpo0: Iomega VPI0 ... i cannot find any reference to imm0 in the LINT file or is that because I'm running 4.0-RELEASE instead of -STABLE? andy I have absolutely no idea where imm0 came from. There is no reference to it in my kernel config file, and nothing shows in /dev. -- 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:And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Re: Parallel port zip drives - inventory of working and non-working systems
On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, J McKitrick wrote: Does anyone recall seeing or making a remark about a group of interrupts or hardware port locations that could be causing this problem? I was searching my email and i can't find it. Someone said 4.0 allocates a group of hardware locations (0x380-0x3f0?) differently from 3.4, and that this may affect the parallel port allocation on laptops. Has anyone had this zip timeout error on a desktop machine and not been able to fix it? My problem was it stopped working when I went to 4.0. When I changed my BIOS setting the parallel port to EPP, it started working again. -- 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:And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Parallel port ZIP drive?
Went out and bought a new hard drive from Staples today. The price was too good to pass up!. Anyway, it came with a free parallel port zip drive. Needless to say this only included windoze drivers :-( Can I use this with FreeBSD? If so how? Thanks. -- Stan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]404-996-6955 Factory Automation Systems Atlanta Ga. -- Look, look, see Windows 95. Buy, lemmings, buy! Pay no attention to that cliff ahead...Henry Spencer (c) 1998 Stan Brown. Redistribution via the Microsoft Network is prohibited. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
RE: Parallel port ZIP drive?
On 06-Dec-99 Stan Brown wrote: Anyway, it came with a free parallel port zip drive. Needless to say this only included windoze drivers :-( Can I use this with FreeBSD? If so how? The LINT kernel config file will give you more information.. It tells you about the vpo0 controller and ppbus.. (Which is the limit of my knowledge since I don't have a parallel zip drive) BTW this sort of question belongs on freebsd-questions. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
