Subject: Re: bpp and lpvi
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Weisberg <jaw@Op.Net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/27/2000 10:14:36
mouse asks:
|
| Back a week or two ago, I wrote stuff about a bpp/lpvi card. One
| person wrote
|
| > You're very lucky to have gotten the cables. I know of at least a
| > dozen people who have (or have had) the printers & cards but no
| > cables.
|
| Would it be of any use for me to continuity-test the cable and post a
| pinout? I don't think I've ever seen those SCSI-2-like connectors
| except on the ends of cables, but a cable shop could probably make one
| up. (It'd be a cu$tom job, but maybe cheap enough to be worth it if
| you get the printer and card cheap/free...and someone can make the
| driver work, something I'm going to attack Real Soon Now, now that I
| have some spare disks.)
Workstation Express (formerly Nudata, now part of * Warehouse)
carries both cables:
sparc printer video cable: cus8900 $85
sparc printer parallel cable cus8901 $79
1-800-844-5757
I have no affilation with them.
--jeff