ZIP on paralell port

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 19:04 +0200, Daniel Tahin wrote:
> Hi everybody!
> 
> I have a 100mb paralell port ZIP drive, but if i use the ppa or imm driver, it's 
> very slow (reading and writing on ca. 50Kbytes/sec).
> I've read in the mail-archive, that there is a "Curtin" driver, that speeds the 
> transfer up.
> Does anyone know, where can i download this driver?

The curtin driver was really prevalent on 2.2 kernels.  The code was
essentially folded into the "parport" driver in 2.4 and subsequent
kernels.

You didn't say what Linux you're running.  Assuming something fairly
recent, plug in the drive and do a fresh boot.  Do NOT load those other
drivers.  Do an "lsmod" and see if you see that the "parport" and
"parport_pc" devices are loaded.  If so, you can check the various files
in /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0 and see if your device was spotted.
Also check the output of "dmesg".  The device should have been auto
detected and usable.

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