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Hello,

On Dec 1, 2007, at 15:01, Chris Wareham wrote:

> Ganimede said on 1/12/07 17:31:
>> Hi list,
>> I would like to use my old Iomega Zip100 paralell
>> drive on my SPARCclassic (a NetBSD 3.1 box).
>> Where can I find an how-to ?
>> Regards.
>> Ganimede Dignan.
>
> On x86 at least I believe it "just works":
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/netbsd.html#using-zips
>
> However, there may be problems with the parallel port driver on Sparc
> boxes, as I recall having problems getting a printer to work with my
> SparcStation 5.

Yeah, the bpp driver is labeled as 'not well tested' since forever. I  
certainly never did, I don't even have a parallel port printer. The  
hardware is certainly capable of doing bi-directional transfers at  
decent speeds using DMA and such.

have fun
Michael
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