From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 5 15:37:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.twave.net (twave.net [206.100.228.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76E9F37BA1F for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 15:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brameld@twave.net) Received: from [208.47.188.48] by mail.twave.net (NTMail 3.03.0018/1.abwg) with ESMTP id wa729114 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:37:16 -0400 From: Walter Brameld To: J McKitrick , Nick Hibma Subject: Re: Parallel port zip drives - inventory of working and non-working systems Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:36:17 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: FreeBSD STABLE Mailing List , FreeBSD CURRENT Mailing List References: <20000405153914.A13658@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20000405153914.A13658@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00040519372802.01864@Bozo_3.BozoLand.domain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, J McKitrick wrote: > Does anyone recall seeing or making a remark about a group of interrupts or > hardware port locations that could be causing this problem? I was searching > my email and i can't find it. > > Someone said 4.0 allocates a group of hardware locations (0x380-0x3f0?) > differently from 3.4, and that this may affect the parallel port allocation > on laptops. > > Has anyone had this zip timeout error on a desktop machine and not been > able to fix it? My problem was it stopped working when I went to 4.0. When I changed my BIOS setting the parallel port to EPP, it started working again. -- Walter Brameld Microsoft: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? BSD: Are you guys coming, or what? Walter: And what does THIS button do?? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message