Re: ZIP drive on Sparc?

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 12:07:02 EST


On Thu, Feb 03, 2000 at 04:54:53PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On 3 Feb 2000, Per Lundberg wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get a Zip drive to work connected to the parallell port
> > on my Sparc. Is this possible in Linux? The PPA stuff doesn't show up
> > in make menuconfig, so I guess it isn't really supported...
>
> It ought to be possible, but it might take some coding first. What type
> of Sparc?
>
> The ppa driver assumes a PC-style parallel port, rather than using the
> parport interface. If you can change that, you should be able to get
> results.

The sparc config has an option for PC-style parallel port driver (which it
uses for the lp driver, iirc). If you enable this, then had config the Zip
driver (might take some copying from the main Config.in to
arch/sparc/config.in), then it _should_ be possible, but yet it seems to
be untested.

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