Re: Problems w/Colorado T1000 tape bkup?

["John H. Kim" <jokim@tuna.mit.edu>]

On Wed, 6 Mar 1996, Richard Fritzson wrote:

> I just bought a parallel port tape drive (the Iomega Ditto 3200). It 
> will not work from my Thinkpad 701C. The software just can't see the 
> drive. (The drive is fine; it works on other machines.) I am going to 
> call IBM tomorrow to see if there is anything that can be done.

While fiddling around trying to get PLIP (Parallel Line Internet
Protocol) working on my TP701, I noticed some unusual behavior from
the parallel port.

If you set it to anything but a simple parallel port, most software
will see TWO parallel ports, one normal and one enhanced.  If you
consider the 701 already uses nearly all its IRQs, it's easy to see
how software can get confused with this.
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