mandler@apollo.hp.com (John Mandler) (06/15/91)
>> herb@ajfcal.uucp (Herb Peyerl) writes >> >> ... Now I find myself needing to hook up a QMS-810+ printer >> to the parallel port on a 400t... I've used the information >> in /install/doc/apollo/os.10.3.release_notes and created the >> file "/sys/node_data/etc/pio1.conf" with the appropriate information >> from the release notes... However, the printer blocks when I send >> a postscript document to the printer... ie: it blocks so bad, I >> can only "sigp -b" the process... After that I have to shutdown >> the machine before I can attempt again... I can't locate where >> the pio1.conf stuff is documented more fully... I'd like some >> descriptions of options there are and what the mnemonics mean... The problem is a centronics handshaking protocol which is different from the parallel port hardware handshake protocol. After sr10.3 we discovered a number of printers with this inconsistency , including the QMS 810 . Patches 240 and 243, issued in March 1990, address this problem. Install this patch and edit your pio1.conf file to use NSTRB_ONLY handshake mode. pskq2 also addresses this problem and is the prefered solution. John Mandler UTD East Hewlett-Packard Company, Apollo Division ---------------------------------------------------