[ On Tuesday, December 30, 2003 at 13:15:51 (+0000), Chris Smith wrote: ]
> Subject: SPARCstation 5 and printing
> 
> I intend to retire my PC in the next few weeks in favour of a 5/170 (as
> it does what i need it to).  I have a Postscript LaserJet 4 with
> parallel port.  Will this work with the onboard printer port ok with
> NetBSD as I remember seeing driver issues a while back?

I don't know if it's a driver issue or hardware issue, but I managed to
crash my SS20 once recently by power cycling my Epson Stylus 800 several
times in succession while it was plugged into the parallel port....
That was, IIRC, with a 1.6.1 kernel.

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