ZIP on paralell port 2006-05-20 - By Daniel Tahin
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Date sent: Thu, 18 May 2006 11:50:47 -0700
From: Rick Stevens <rstevens@(protected)>
Subject: Re: ZIP on paralell port
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> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 19:04 +0200, Daniel Tahin wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > I have a 100mb paralell port ZIP drive, but if i use the ppa or imm driver,
it's
> > very slow (reading and writing on ca. 50Kbytes/sec).
> > I've read in the mail-archive, that there is a "Curtin" driver, that speeds
the
> > transfer up.
> > Does anyone know, where can i download this driver?
>
> The curtin driver was really prevalent on 2.2 kernels. The code was
> essentially folded into the "parport" driver in 2.4 and subsequent
> kernels.
>
> You didn't say what Linux you're running. Assuming something fairly
> recent, plug in the drive and do a fresh boot. Do NOT load those other
> drivers. Do an "lsmod" and see if you see that the "parport" and
> "parport_pc" devices are loaded. If so, you can check the various files
> in /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0 and see if your device was spotted.
> Also check the output of "dmesg". The device should have been auto
> detected and usable.
>
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Hello,
Thanx for the hint, but it didn't work. The modul parport didn't recognize
automatically.
First i've set some options in the BIOS, and it worked with EPP mode. If i set
it to ECP it didn't
I need to load scsi_mod, and imm. After these steps it was ok, and worked on
maximum speed:-)
But there is an other question: i have an external 250MB ZIP device. I guess it
's a scsi external drive, because
it has the scsi_termination, and scsi_id switches, but there is a DB25 cable.
It didn't work under Linux, Windows.
I don't know, can i connect this cable to a normal pc-paralell port, or do i
need an adapter to connect it to a 50pin scsi port?
Yes Linux is Fedora3, kernel is 2.6 :-)
Thanx again for your advice,
Daniel
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