Peter Eacmen (eacmen@att.net)
Fri, 09 Apr 1999 13:42:18 -0400
CompUSA has a ECP/EPP ISA parallel port for cheap. Should I buy that and see what
happens? I have tried every thing except changing the parallel port.
Thank you,
-- Peter
grant@torque.net wrote:
> > Well what I did was enabled Plug and Play and Autoprobe for parallel deviced in the
> > 2.2.1 kernel and when I plug my HP printer into the port it detects it.
>
> None of that has anything to do with support for PP tape drives.
>
> > But when I connect the Sony Superstation it says this:
> > parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
> > parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
>
> First, change the CMOS settings to a non-ECP mode.
>
> Then, try loading the paride, epat and pt drivers. Load pt with verbose=1
> and let me see the results.
>
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