Re: Read from /dev/lp, new patch against 2.1.27/28

Grant R. Guenther (grant@knot.torque.net)
Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:33:08 -0500 (EST)

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> From: Carsten Gross <carsten@sol.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de>
> Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 01:54:49 +0100 (MET)
>
> It would be great if someone with a parallel port zip drive or another
> "unusual" peripheral device attached to the printer port would like to test
> this driver and especially the ioctl.
>
> You realize there is a parallel-port SCSI driver for the ZIP interface
> already, right?

I believe he also presumes that all the "unusual" peripheral devices
conform to the IEEE 1284 protocols, as well. Most don't.

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