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From: jaeger@madnix.UUCP (Jay Jaeger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Adding Centronics Port to DN3000
Keywords: centronics parallel port DN3000
Message-ID: <975@madnix.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 89 03:19:32 GMT
References: <580@stdc01.UUCP>
Reply-To: jaeger@madnix.UUCP (Jay Jaeger)
Distribution: usa
Organization: State of WI, Dept. of Transportation
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In article <580@stdc01.UUCP> brigman@stdc01.UUCP (James Brigman) writes:
>Can you add a plain-jane serial-parallel PC-bus card to a DN3000
>with a reasonable expectation of functionality? What kind of 
>drivers would I need? Will the Context Corporation's Postscript
>Laser Print Server drive such a port?

We at WI DOT tried parallel ports, and /dev/pio seems to be being asked
too much of - interrupt drive PC parallel ports don't seem to work very
well.  The Apollo SPE card comes with the appropriate drivers.  If you
want serial, your DN3000 has one built in (I think), and can be addressed
as /dev/sio1 (or, if you buy special cable, 3 ports, adding /dev/sio2 and 
/dev/sio3).  Hope this helped.  (We GAVE UP on parallel ports...)

			Jay R. Jaeger
			State of WI, Department of Transportation
			madnix!jaeger (for now...)