Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net)
Sat, 21 Mar 1998 08:46:11 -0500 (EST)
> I haven't seen reference to a mailing list archive. Does one exist, and
> if so where can I find it?
There's no archive at the moment. I've been trying to get a mail to news
gateway set up so that DejaNews would archive us among the other linux.*
pseudo groups. Adam Richter gates the linux-syquest list (which I also
run) but I haven't been able to get him to set up a gate for linux-parport.
Anybody know how to get Adam's attention ?
> From what I can tell, the software supplied with the adapter has an
> EPSA.EXE file, and it installs into a SHTLMAN directory, so it appears
> as if the product is a Suttle Technology clone.
Apparently, there were two versions of the EPSA. I have an EPSA-2, but
I'd never encountered the original EPSA.
> I have also pulled the beastie apart, and it consists of an NCR 5380
> chip for the SCSI, and another main chip for which I can't find
> information that is presumably the parallel port interface.
The EPSA-2 (and the EPST) both have a modified 5380 on chip, I guess the
earlier model used the real thing and the design was changed to reduce
production costs.
> Under linux, I have compiled the modules for epsa, epst, t348, and t358,
> and tried all of these. In each case the detection routines fail to
> detect the adapter, although the adapter does see some input (the busy
> light on the adapter does come on).
Don't attach too much significance to the indicator.
> For the modules that I am loading, how can I debug the loading to see
> what is happening? Do I need to modify the code so that the initial
> checks are not done at initial loading, but can then be initiated later
> to see what is happening? Or is there some other way that I can debug it
> when it is loaded with insmod?
There's almost certainly no point in trying to convince one of the
existing drivers to work. What we can do is to try to analyse the protocol.
Please contact me directly if you want to try to crack it.
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