Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 1999 19:10:23 +0100 (GMT) | From | Tim Waugh <> | Subject | Re: Printer and Zip drive don't work together. |
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Steffen Kluge wrote:
> can access the CDROM or the printer, but not simultaneously. If > I access the CDROM while printing, for example, the printer > immediately stops.
Doesn't it continue afterwards? That indicates something wrong in the backpack driver, I think. This kind of problem can be diagnosed a little easier if you have a play with the different BIOS settings for the parallel port mode.
> I'm just relating this as anecdotal evidence that the > pass-through code is not entirely broken.
I use the Zip pass-through port all the time to print.
> I'm about to re-subscribe to the parport mailing list, but how > many mailing lists can one subscribe to before losing total > control of incoming e-mail?
The linux-parport mailing list is archived, if that helps. Check out <URL:http://www.torque.net/parport>.
Tim. */
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