[luau] FreeBSD zip drive install

[Gary Dunn]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2004 15:46:17 -1000
al plant <webmaster at hawaiidakine.com> wrote:

... 
> The BIOs setting was the fault.
> 
> I cleared it by disabling the BIOs internal motherboard settings and
> installing a printer card that I set to run at IRQ 7  - 0278 .
> This brought up the zip drive with no problem.
> 
> Then I removed the card and reset the internal motherboard back to IRQ 7
> and 0378. 
> This brought up the zip drive with no problem. I did set the BIOs to EPP
> as you suggested.

Great! Please post your solution to the freebsd questions list, because I
know there are others who have experienced this problem.

I wonder if using the extra card is a necessary part of the solution. Do
you think just changing the port address would do the trick? I have read
that some systems ignore the EPP setting with a port setting of 3BC
(original parallel port 1 on the monochrome video card), and in such cases
changing it to 278 or 378 does the trick.

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