Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 23:27:55 -0500 (EST) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" <babbleon@mercury.interpath.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: boia01@pollux.GEL.USherb.CA, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Zip drive Message-ID: <199612180427.XAA15977@mercury.interpath.com> In-Reply-To: <199612160217.MAA19290@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Dec 16, 96 12:47:31 pm
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| | Alex.Boisvert stands accused of saying: | > I am using the same driver with an Epson ZIP drive (same drive as Iomega | > but manufactured by Epson). I had to remove some of the detecting code | > because it was not seeing the drive. | > | > I also patched the driver to work with 2.2-ALPHA. | > | > Works like a charm. | > Alex. | > | > PS: If you need my source, just ask. | | If we can reach some consensus on what works and what doesn't for this | driver, I'll get it committed to -current so that it gets wider | distribution and testing. Alex, I'd obviously like your code - and | anyone else that's using it, please send me your diffs from the | original. Alex: Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have got the zip drive working here. For anybody looking at the code, I used his #define values for timeouts and his self-described "hack," but left the other code as it was originally, to get a working 2.1.0 driver (yes, I'm living the past; one reason I want a zip drive is to back up so I can update my O/S). I will be happy to send diffs (either relative to the origianl ppa3.c or to Alex's version), but I believe that the upshot of what I left and what I kept is that I have Alex's fix to make it work with my hardware without the changes for 2.2-ALPHA, but since 2.1.6 is the final, put-to-bed 2.1 (right?), I don't think the that the version I'm running is of widespread interest, is it? Anyway, I'm quite happy. Thanks for the help! -- Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On. "Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other account's .sig files." http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon
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