From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Oct 2 04:56:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id EAA20857 for hardware-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 04:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soleil.uvsq.fr (soleil.uvsq.fr [193.51.24.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id EAA20847 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 04:56:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cezanne.prism.uvsq.fr (rtc102.reseau.uvsq.fr [193.51.24.18]) by soleil.uvsq.fr (8.8.6/jtpda-5.2) with ESMTP id NAA26594 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:55:28 +0200 (METDST) Received: (from son@localhost) by cezanne.prism.uvsq.fr (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00324; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:34:32 GMT Message-ID: <19971002133432.18047@coreff.prism.uvsq.fr> Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:34:32 +0000 From: Nicolas Souchu To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ppbus problem References: <199710011255.IAA00667@tower.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Greg Pavelcak on Wed, Oct 01, 1997 at 10:39:45AM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD coreff 2.2.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Oct 01, 1997 at 10:39:45AM -0400, Greg Pavelcak wrote: >> > > From: User Gp >> > > >> > > I 'm trying to install the ppbus stuff for my parallel port >> > > zip drive. The kernel compiled OK, and it has a lot to say >> > > about the drive, but fdisk and mount produce no results. >> > > Here's dmesg. Any ideas. >> > >> > Can you be more specific about "no results"? Error messages? System >> > lockup? >> >> No error messages, it just sits doing nothing, i.e. no indication (sound or >> lights of disk activity in the zip. I bring my prompt back with ^C. Then, you do not have the message "device not configured" from sd0 driver? >To follow up, I have one zip, but I had vpo.c in both >/sys/conf/files and /sys/i386/conf/files.i386 and their related >directories (DOn't ask me how.). >Now I only have vpo.c in /sys/i386/conf/files.i386, and >there's some improvement. Now I only get the probe results for the >96MB Zip. fdisk still hangs though. Should I be using some of those >flags in my kernel? I don't quite understand those. > Ok, is there a way for you to get the name of your parallel port chipset? Which release of ppbus-dist did you get? September's? You may try to set boot flags to 0x1 to get NIBBLE operating mode. -- Nicolas.Souchu@prism.uvsq.fr FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations - http://www.FreeBSD.org