Subject: Re: NetBSD support SPARCprinter card?
To: James Graham <greywolf@aahz.VAS.viewlogic.com>
From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 09/21/1995 13:05:51
On Thu, 21 Sep 1995, James Graham wrote:
> * WHAT * SPARC 20 printer port?!?
>
> On the back of an SS20 I see:
>
> [MBUS] [SBUS3] [SBUS1]
> [MBUS] [SBUS2] [SBUS0]
> [dbri]
> [Mono FB] [A/B ser] (KB) [dbri] [TP] [SCSI] [Audio I/O]
^^^^^
Look a little more closely at that label. The lower one is for AUI and
the upper one is a parallel port (it is labeled "//" for parallel, get it?
:-). If you still don't believe me, try plugging the AUI adapter cable
into each one, it will only fit into the lower port.
> I don't see anything resembling a printer port. You're probably best off
> shoving your bpp into one of the lower slots on the '20 and going that way.
>
> --*greywolf;
That's what I ended up doing. And now I have TWO printer ports,
/dev/bpp0, and /dev/bpp1...
---Jake Hamby
jehamby@lightside.com