[openbeos] Re: parallel driver

http://www.vmunix.com/mark/FreeBSD/ZIP-FAQ.html

And AFAIK the Zip drive is supported as an SCSI device under Windows too.
This is not a tweak or some lazyness from Linux programmers :P

En réponse à Fred K Ollinger <follinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> > > There are a couple of these in progress (parallel ports).
> > > I would have to see what Thomas is doing (I haven't looked) to see
> > > how well the drives (Zip, etc) could/would work with this.
> > Ok, let me know. If I understand correctly, the Zip // driver emulates
> SCSI
> > through the // port. This way we should just use a standard scsi
> driver to
> 
> Which one? I thought that this was just in linux. I am guessing that
> the
> windows driver does not do this. IMHO, the scsi emulation is just there
> to
> save the zip driver writer work, and isn't necessarily necessary under
> beos. Please correct me if this is wrong.
> 
> > control it if we forward the scsi commands from the scsi bus manager
> to
> > the //
> > port.
> 
> Do it if it will save work, and you feel the need to do that. In linux
> it
> always felt like a lazy kludge to me. (I like linux, but I can be
> honest
> about it's [few] shortcomings. :) )
> 
> Are you planning on just porting the linux driver over?
> 
> Keep up the good work. I'm impressed.
> 
> Fred
> 
> 
>

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