From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:20:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E5737D.9070205@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070228130430.78933e67@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On 02/28/2007 02:04 PM, Alan wrote:
> PLIP/Laplink runs bidirectional on ordinary parallel ports. The
> bidirectional part of parallel ports in "normal" modes is still used
> for things like PnP detection of printer and drivers.
And my parallel port Iomega ZIP drive, it seems. I actually checked
earlier and although it doesn't use DMA (it says it's using "EPP
32-bit") it does use bidrectional communication; it's an sd device.
I admit most of those will be confined to history as well with respect
to actual use (they existed with 100MB, 250 and 750MB disks, although
the 750 one probably not as parallel) but they looked cool, so people
haven't just thrown them away yet :)
Rene
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 12:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-26 18:06 bug in kernel 2.6.21-rc1-git1: conventional floppy drive cannot be mounted without hanging up the whole system Oleg Nesterov
2007-02-26 18:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 20:55 ` Rene Herman
2007-02-26 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-28 2:42 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-02-28 13:04 ` Alan
2007-02-28 12:20 ` Rene Herman [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-25 18:29 Uwe Bugla
2007-02-25 21:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-02-26 3:55 ` Mike Galbraith
2007-02-24 17:54 Uwe Bugla
2007-02-24 18:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-02-24 18:29 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-02-24 19:23 ` Uwe Bugla
2007-02-24 19:49 ` Ray Lee
2007-02-26 10:38 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-26 15:12 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-26 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 16:28 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-02-26 16:34 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-02-26 17:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-26 17:45 ` Stephane Eranian
2007-02-26 17:28 ` Stephane Eranian
2007-02-26 17:37 ` Linus Torvalds
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