jns@fernwood.mpk.ca.US (Jerry Sweet) (03/25/91)
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?
rogerk@mips.com (Roger B.A. Klorese) (03/28/91)
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