Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine
> I don't know how to say this properly.. when backing up files from
> my IDE hard drive to my parallel port ZIP100 drive, the
> machine occasionally blocks: it's like everything freezes for
> about half a minute before I can do anything again. This only
> happens when the ZIP drive is running (not sure if it's R or W
> or both). This is with kernel 2.2.17, using the imm driver as
> a module. I've set all the default "safe" options for the
> driver, like "slow and reliable" or whatnot. Is this a kernel
> bug? IMM driver bug? User bug?
Hmmm ... I thought the imm module was for the parallel port 250 and
the ppa module is for the 100. You may want to try loading ppa vice
imm and see if this helps.
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