Blazer problems re-visited

Gregory Nowak greg at romuald.net.eu.org
Fri Jun 25 23:26:45 EDT 2004


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Hate to disappoint you Igor, but my dmesg output says:

parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]

and as I've mentioned before, I can cat files to the blazer just
fine. Your blazer firmware is a different story though. My firmware
revision is October 1, 1999, and I was told on the FS support list
that this is the newest firmware when I asked. So, you might want to
contact CAT or FS to find out if they can replace your blazer's EPROM.

Greg


On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 10:29:33PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi all. Just recently, I figured out how to get into the bios on this machine, and was able to change the parallel port mode. However, I think I am basically screwed on this whole thing 
> because it seems the port does not support ECP, and I figured out through a working laptop that that's the propper mode for the Blazer to comprehend the input. In further digging, I also 
> discovered the following in dmesg: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> 
> Judging from that output, would I be correct in assuming that this port only supports modes PCSPP, TRISTATE, and EPP? Because if so, I will never be able to print to the blazer using this 
> motherboard anyway. Unless there is perhaps a newer version of the Blazer's firmware that does support EPP? The current version I am using is the August 20, 1993 revision. Thanks!
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