Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:12:19 -0600 | From | "Forever shall I be." <> |
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 07:17:28PM +0100, Davy Preuveneers wrote: > Since I'm running the 2.4.x kernels, I'm having a little problem with my > parallel zip-disk. The ppa module can't use the EPP 32 protocol and uses > the PS/2 protocol instead (which is much slower), as shown by the boot > message of kernel 2.4.1: > [snip] > > Kernels 2.2.x use the EPP 32 bit protocol while the 2.4.x versions don't, > although I have used the same options when compiling the new 2.4.1 kernel. > When I change the parallel port configuration in the BIOS from ECP/EPP to > EPP only (version 1.9), the 2.4.x kernels use the EPP 32 bit protocol as > well, but then I can't use ECP with dma anymore. > > Does anyone know what the problem is?
Are you sure you've given parport_pc the correct IRQ/DMA? It doesn't seem to be able to detect them very well over here, so I need a line such as: options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3
but YMMV :)
> > Davy
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