On Fri, 07 Apr 2000, in a never-ending search for enlightenment, Alan Edmonds wrote:
> I tried a parallel zip drive on a Dell Latitude CP (older model).
> The BIOS only lists Disabled, BiDirectional, and EPP mode. The
> kernel found the port, but I got a bunch of vp0: timeout messages
> later during the boot.
>
> Could zip drive failures be related to not having a SCSI
> controller? The zip drive works fine in my other machine
> (that has a SCSI controller).
>
> --
> Alan Edmonds, KB5ZUY Sterling Software
Don't know if that's a laptop, and again I'm running on a desktop. I do
not have SCSI on my machine and ZIP works fine. The ZIP drive has an
internal SCSI with a parallel to SCSI adaptor.
Again, did you try it with EPP mode? If this might help, here is the
relevant output from dmesg:
FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Sat Apr 1 23:33:30 EST 2000
..
..
..
ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 flags 0x4 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP-only) in EPP mode (EPP 1.9)
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
vpo0: <Iomega Matchmaker Parallel to SCSI interface> on ppbus0
imm0: EPP 1.9 mode
..
..
..
da0 at vpo0 bus 0 target 5 lun 0
da0: <IOMEGA ZIP 100 PLUS J.66> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 96C)
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