Mahesh Madhav (mjm@sanitarium.harkness.brown.edu)
Sat, 23 Jan 1999 17:55:23 -0500 (EST)
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 grant@torque.net wrote:
> It works. Here's what showed up in my /proc/pci:
>
> Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
> Parallel controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0).
> Vendor id=1407. Device id=8000.
> Slow devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 19.
> I/O at 0x6100 [0x6101].
I went out and bought the SIIG CyberParallel Port PCI card. I used
Grant's helpful tips to get it to work, and here are some results:
Bus 0, device 17, function 0:
Parallel controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 0).
Vendor id=131f. Device id=2020.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
I/O at 0xfcf0 [0xfcf1].
I/O at 0xfcfc [0xfcfd].
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: epat: port 0xfcf0, mode 0, ccr 0, test=(0,0,0)
pda: epat: port 0xfcf0, mode 1, ccr 0, test=(0,0,0)
pda: epat: port 0xfcf0, mode 2, ccr 2d, test=(255,255,510)
pda: epat: port 0xfcf0, mode 3, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pda: epat: port 0xfcf0, mode 4, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pda: epat: port 0xfcf0, mode 5, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pda: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0xfcf0, mode 1 (5/3), delay 1
pda: SyQuest SparQ, master, 1960560 blocks [957M], (1945/16/63), removable media
pda: pda1
^^^^^^^^^^^^
The first time I loaded pd, it went in as mode 2 (8-bit). I have not
gotten it to load mode 2 since. I tried to force it, and even tried "-1"
in the command line, but I couldn't get it back. So I am using mode1 only.
To test the performance, I tried copying a 9 Meg file to and from the
drive (which has an ext2 formatted disk)
HD-->SparQ SparQ-->HD
regular 0:55 1:31
w/PCI card 0:14 1:05
I think it was worth $40. And I think if I can get mode 2 to load again,
it would go even faster.
-mahesh
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