On Wed, 6 May 1998, David Spencer wrote:
> Vidiot wrote:
> >
> > >2. Buy a parallel port card (something about $20 IIRC) and hook the
> > >printer and the ZIP separately. The end of all conflicts.
> > > Oleg
> >
> > This is a very good point and suggestion. It is exactly what I have done
> > in mine. I totally forgot about that being a problem.
> >
>
> I'd like to do the same but I've run out of slots. I could use a new
> SCSI card though, so do you know if there are any SCSI cards with
> integral parallel ports? Possibly ditto sound card although my SB16
> works perfectly with everything I've ever thrown at it and I'm loathe to
> change it. I must have had that card about 5 years now. It must be the
> oldest thing in my computer.
One thought might be to run a Zip Plus if you still want the parallel port
on it... I just got one in the other day, although am having problems with
it under linux on parallel, apparently similar to the previously reported
problems.
The drive works fine under parallel under DOS, and it was tested under
Win95, but ... about a week ago a friend unhooked the cable for his p.p.
zip drive from the parallel port on my tower, and seems like right when he
did that the kernel gave a register/stack dump, including cpu ID, etc. and
locked up tighter than a drum. Since then I got this Zip Plus and trying
to load the ppa module results in the same register/stack dump, same as
before, but it doesn't lock up.
Has me totally puzzled as it works with Iomega drivers under DOS,
otherwise i'd assume parallel port is toasty.
Any ideas? I'm going to download an updated ppa driver today, but I don't
have much hope .. the friend's parallel port zip drive (not zip plus)
worked fine on multiple occasions up to that fatal night.
New motherboard/CPU/etc. should be arriving tomorrow, so i'm not so
worried about it, as the current system will be moved to other tasks, and
not be using the Zip Plus, but i'd still like to fix it, and know why...
-macker
BTW, David, I know how you feel about the sound card... i'm running an
original 8-bit sound blaster on this system and it's only because it
sounds extremely crappy under sdoom (and my midi's could sound much
better) that i'm not putting it in the new system. (Going with an SBAWE64
Gold instead *g*)
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