On 1 Sep 2003 03:00:01 -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> Re. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-help/2003/08/31/0001.html
... 
> I'm told that the problem is in the way the parallel port requires
> interrupts to be handled, which doesn't work well with what NetBSD
> would like to believe.  (^&
... 
> You might also get some improvements by changing the driver between
> interrupt-driven and interrupt-less mode.  (It's a minor mode on the
> /dev node.  I think that NetBSD now ships with /dev/lpa as the
> interrupt-less counterpart to /dev/lpt.  I think that the interrupt-
> driven one performs less well.)

However, understand that using /dev/lpa may not work correctly with
certain printers. I've seen a few that simply print the what was
left in the printer's buffer after it overran when using lpa.