Re: zip ECP/EPP driver?

[Hamish Moffatt <moffatt@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au>]

On Tue, Jun 10, 1997 at 09:35:00AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken, the ZIP parallel driver is in the main kernel source
> now, and the Debian rescue floppy is zip-enabled.

It is, but it doesn't use the new bidirectional parallel port
modes, and so it's rather slow -- quite a lot slower than the
Iomega DOS/Windows drivers. Dave Campbell had developed
a new set which used the bidirectional modes and were
therefore significantly faster (IIRC).


thanks,


Hamish
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