Simon Paradis (sparadis@globetrotter.net)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 23:42:59 -0400
Hello,
>Is the parallel port built in to the motherboard, or on an add-in card ?
It's on the PCI controller which has 2 ide port (pio mode 3), 1 game port, 2
serial port with 16550 UARTs
Here what the doc (can we call a single piece of paper a doc ? :) says:
Super-16550 Pro is a high performance VESA Local Bus high speed Super I/O
which supports 2 Enhanced IDE (Mode 3) hard disks, 2 floppy drivesd, 2 high
speed 16550 UART serial, 1 game port and 1 bi-directional ECP/EPP parallel
printer port.
(looks like "Noname SuperCrap stuff" IMO)
There's no jumper setting for parallel port stuff except for setting the IO
port. There's a jumper "FDD Enable", maybe this is what we're searching ?
Does FDD mean Floppy Disk Drive or is it my imagination ?
Anyway here's the dump:
############ testport -bidir ##################
LPT = 0378, C0 00 FF 00 00
Bidirectional
ECR Detected, 35 10 40 E0 00 C0 00 C0 00 Bidirectional
Chipset : SMC FDC37C666GT
Setting : Bidirectional, Passed
Mode : Bidirectional
###############################################
############ testport -unidir #################
LPT = 0378, C0 00 FF 00 00
Bidirectional
ECR Detected, 95 10 40 E0 00 C0 00 C0 00 EPP
Chipset : SMC FDC37C666GT
Setting : Unidirectional, Passed
Mode : Unidirectional
###############################################
############### testport -epp #################
LPT = 0378, C0 00 FF 00 00
Bidirectional
ECR Detected, 35 10 40 E0 00 C0 00 C0 00 Bidirectional
Chipset : SMC FDC37C666GT
Setting : EPP, Passed
Mode : EPP
###############################################
############### testport -ecp #################
LPT = 0378, C0 00 FF 00 00
Bidirectional
ECR Detected, 95 10 40 E0 00 C0 00 C0 00 EPP
Chipset : SMC FDC37C666GT
Setting : ECP, Passed
Mode : ECP
###############################################
And here's what PARALLEL.EXE says:
##################################################################
#Port Type|Address|IRQ|BIOS Name|Notes #
##################################################################
#No port # 3BC # - # - #No port found at this address #
#ECP port # 378 # ? # LPT1: #Need loopback to determine IRQ #
# # # # #See instructions in PARALLEL.DOC#
# # # # #Otherwise assume IRQ 7 or IRQ 5 #
# # # # #ECP port set to Test mode #
#No port # 278 # - # - #No port found at this address #
##################################################################
I ran both test in plain DOS with nothing in autoexec/config, no TSR, memory
managers etc...
Thanks for your help,
Simon Paradis | Net Timer Pro developer
sparadis@globetrotter.net| http://ntp.home.ml.org
ICQ: 9915264 | "When all else fail, use a big hammer"
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