Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!rogerk
From: rogerk@mips.com (Roger B.A. Klorese)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: parallel printer port problems
Message-ID: <1433@spim.mips.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 91 19:27:58 GMT
References: <9103241934.AA29897@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
Sender: news@mips.COM
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, California
Lines: 16
Nntp-Posting-Host: ombredin.mips.com

In article <9103241934.AA29897@fernwood.mpk.ca.us> jns@fernwood.mpk.ca.US (Jerry Sweet) writes:
>We have a MIPS-supplied ISI CP serial/parallel board in our system.
>When we upgraded from the old BSD version of RISC/os to the newer
>RISC/os 4.51, the parallel printer port promptly stopped working.
>Whenever there's an attempt to print something via lpr, errors now
>appear in /usr/adm/messages to the effect that there is a VME bus
>error.  This is a pretty severe problem.  Has anyone had a similar
>problem...and gotten a fix for it?

Check jumper E7 on the board.  It must be in place.  UMIPS-BSD addressed
the port in 16-bit mode, and RISC/os uses 24-bit mode.
-- 
ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                  MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
MS 6-05    930 DeGuigne Dr.   Sunnyvale, CA  94088              +1 408 524-7421
"10 years of Reagan/Bush have brought us to a new place: postconstitutional
America." - Jon Carroll     rogerk@mips.COM | {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!mips!rogerk