Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net)
Tue, 19 May 1998 07:02:19 -0400 (EDT)
> I'm having some problems with a SparQ 1.0 GB attached to a parallel
> port... i have too parallel ports on the motherboard... one using the
> built in parallel port... set to EPP mode... and another add-on card... at
> 0x278... also set to EPP mode
>
> now... what happens... i try to unzip some src on the SparQ drive... and
> i'll get CRC errors...
>
> also... i would get filesystem errors... and would have to run fsck... to
> fix the inodes
>
> another thing that is interesting... is that when linux is booted...
> sometimes... mode 2 is chosen...
>
> pda: epat 1.0, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x278, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 1
>
> or sometimes... mode 5 is chosen...
>
> pda: epat 1.0, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x278, mode 5 (EPP-32), delay 1
This all sounds suspiciously like a bad cable. It's not a protocol or
driver issue, I don't think. You've also complained before about lousy
performance, IIRC. The two are probably related. Do you have a
switch box in the circuit ? Are you using the cable that came with the
SparQ ? Do you see any of these effects when you use it under DOS/Win
(if you do) ? Do you have a printer chained off the SparQ ? These are
_not_ normal problems with a properly configured SparQ and PARIDE.
It would be a good habit to load pd with the verbose option so I can
see the difference in the probe reports between the times it works in
8 bit mode and when it uses EPP.
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