Walter Brameld wrote:
>
> 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:
I was wrong. On my Latitude (laprtop), it offers ECP mode,
not EPP mode. I don't have the dmesg output handy; I'll
boot it later and see what it says.
My zip drive is an older model with just a parallel port.
Model Z100P2 is says on the bottom.
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