David Campbell (campbell@gear.torque.net)
Sat, 29 May 1999 10:23:23 +0800
<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param><bigger>From: Joachim Woll <<woll@hrz.uni-kassel.de>
Subject: [PARPORT] Re: ZIP-Drive and Printer problem
Date sent: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:26:16 +0200
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param><smaller>>
> >This is a known issue with the PPA driver, and it seems to only affect
> >certain hardware in certain modes. You could verify that this is the same
> >problem by loading ppa, writing 'mode=1' to /proc/scsi/ppa/*, mounting
> >the zip disk, loading lp and trying to print. If it is the same problem,
> >you'll be able to print that way.
>
> YES! This is the same problem.
</color>This is worse than I thought (it is affecting a lot more people than just one
or two).
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> -> The BIOS settings (Award on an ASUS P5A board) is
</color>My TX97-L is nearly 12 months old. Something that is very suspicious is the
"<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>ALi® M1543 Super I/O Controller<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><bigger>". Is there a WinBond chip on the board? (should be very
close to the serial/parallel port connectors). My mainboard uses a WinBond chip for the parallel/serial
port access so hopefully we can elliminate that as a possible cause.
Does anyone have the above problem and DO NOT have and ALi (Aladin) chipset board?
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Courier New</param><smaller>> Parallel port mode: ECP/EPP
> ECP DMA select: 3 (how can I use it?)
</color>ECP DMA is not used by the ZIP drive, nor is it autoprobed.
<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>> Other BIOS modes do not fix that problem.
</color>I need to check but the EPP probe is probably always on but expected to fail.
David Campbell
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