Re: I/O to ZIP drive temporarily locks up machine
No, ppa was used on some older models while imm is used on newer ZIps,
including 100MB drives manufactured after some date -- I believe its in
1997 or 1998. (See the PPA driver code for an exact answer)
Zip drives do seem to "hang" systems for awhile based on what I can
remember of my old Zip100 on Windows. When I switch to Linux, I ditched
the parallel drive in favor of SCSI which doesn't seem to "hang".
On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Tyrin Price wrote:
> > 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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