Re: ECP+EPP mode problem with IOMEGA Zip

Tim Waugh (tim@cyberelk.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 20 Jan 1999 22:49:00 +0000 (GMT)


On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jan Kara wrote:

> > On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Juan Antonio Martinez wrote:
> >
> > > If the port is set to ECP+EPP mode zip drive is not found. It works fine in
> > > SPP or ECP mode. Not sure if the problem is in parport_pc or ppa modules
> > > Not tested with other parallel devices
> >
> > I expect it's parport_pc, but just to check, please try this:
> >
> > # insmod parport
> > # insmod parport_pc
> > # insmod ppa
> >
> > Did things work previously in 2.1?
> >
> I have the same problems (since 2.1.85 I think). The diagnostic
> utility in the ppa package (I can't just now recall it name) saw well
> everything but the parport_pc didn't. As I remember the parport_pc
> code failed when probing parallel port devices - it send something and
> it didn't liked what it received and so it said that there's no device
> (I tried to bypass these tests in code (;-)) but it doesn't help...).
> I'm not at home now so I can't give you further info but if you are
> interested, mail me.

Could you show me the output from id_probe (the diagnostic utility)? That
would be handy.

Tim.
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