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?
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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=0x383f9ff<FPU,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
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