On Wednesday 12 Mar 2003 15:45, n95110011@netscape.net wrote:
> After i mount this parallel port drive, all transfers freeze the system
This seems to be a more or less unavoidable problem with parallel-port drives.
I've had some success using a preemptible kernel
(http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/) with my PP removable hard drive. It still
gets a bit choppy while the drive is being accessed but it doesn't lock solid
for several seconds at a time (or even several minutes for big files) like it
used to.
> while it's reading at nibble speed
You may want to investigate enabling EPP mode (not ECP+EPP) in the BIOS if
your system supports it; you'll probably get faster transfers that way, which
will also reduce the amount of time spent 'hung' :-)
Stephen
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