Subject: Re: Jaz/Zip drives (was Re: new 1.2BETA /i386 install floppies and kernels)
To: Jack Patton <jpatton@intserv.com>
From: Rahim Azizarab <ray@tezcat.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/07/1996 13:54:03
On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Jack Patton wrote:

> Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 14:46:26 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jack Patton <jpatton@intserv.com>
> To: Rahim Azizarab <ray@tezcat.com>
> Cc: Sean Berry <spberry@iastate.edu>, port-i386@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Jaz/Zip drives (was Re: new 1.2BETA /i386 install floppies and kernels) 
> 
> 
> Is the parallel version supported under NetBSD 1.2BETA? I saw nothing 
> about it in CHANGES and poked around -current on ftp.netbsd.org and 
> couldn't find any mention of it. If it is supported, how do I get it to work?
> 
> Thanks....
> 
> 
Well, I am finding out that it is not yet, but It is not terribly difficult
to patch a driver togather from the existing code.  You would open io port
378h.  The rest is more or less like the scsi driver.
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