Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:54:40 -0500 From: The Babbler <bts@babbleon.org> To: Rachmat Hidajat <rachmat@canada.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ECP and Zip Drive Message-ID: <3A650970.6612C0D@babbleon.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101152133060.29169-100000@okurayama.med.kobe-u.ac.jp>
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This is stretching back my memory (my current machine has a built-in CD-RW), but if I recall correctly, the drive will work in ECP, EPP, or "regular" mode (albiet very slowly); the only trick is that the O/S and the BIOS have to agree. Try going into the BIOS setup and putting the parallel port into EPP mode, and see if that does it for you. Rachmat Hidajat wrote: > > Hi All, > Last week the harddisk in my old Compaq Contura won't boot win95 > anylonger, > which may be good also that I totally turn to FreeBSD since the HD still > works fine for FreeBSD. What I missed from win95 is I can't browse my > files using paralel ZIP Drive under FreeBSD. The paralel port is > recognized as ECP in win95 and it seems that the vpo driver in FreeBSD > only works in EPP mode. The related part of dmesg.boot as as followed: > > Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #1: Mon Jan 15 11:30:28 JST 2001 > root@localhost:/usr/src/sys/compile/COMPAQ > > ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0 > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > ppbus0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE > Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: > ppbus0: <Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5L/0101.03> HP ENHANCED PCL5,PJL > plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0 > ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0 > vpo0: <Iomega VPI0 Parallel to SCSI interface> on ppbus0 > vpo0: EPP 1.9 mode > > vpo0: VP0 error/timeout (3) > vpo0: VP0 error/timeout (3) > ---------<SNIP>------------ > vpo0: VP0 error/timeout (3) > vpo0: VP0 error/timeout (3) > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a > > I have searched the internet and found some others facing the same problem > but with no answer. I wondered whether there is somebody in this list able > to overcome the problem. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message -- "Brian, the man from babble-on" bts@babbleon.org Brian T. Schellenberger http://www.babbleon.org Support http://www.eff.org. Support decss defendents. Support http://www.programming-freedom.org. Boycott amazon.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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