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Date:      Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:03:25 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@free.fr>
Cc:        "F. Heinrichmeyer" <fritz.heinrichmeyer@fernuni-hagen.de>, "freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Parallel Port Zip Drive works when EPP-Mode is choosen in Bios
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001221002240.25770-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000122090548.17844@armor.free.fr>

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On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Nicolas Souchu wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 12:26:08PM +0100, F. Heinrichmeyer wrote:
> >
> >
> >Subject says all! This evening i will try a patch for the ata driver so
> >maybe all my 
> >hardware at home will work again with current when certain patches are
> >applied.
> 
> Nice. The newbus architecture introduces overhead in I/O and old chipsets
> (or old compatible modes) do not always support it.
> 
> Your drive runs really faster too, doesn't it?

Have you measured the overhead? I think it should be trivial compared to
the effort of using inb/outb to poll a port.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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