johnm@spudge.UUCP (John Munsch) (12/22/90)
A few months ago I tried to plug a printer cable (with an Apple Imagewriter on the other end) into my Amiga 2000. I did it with the machine on because I unplug/plug stuff from/to my serial and parallel ports on my PC/AT clones at work all the time without problems. With the Amiga this is apparently not a good idea. I saw a 1/4" long spark between the cable and connector and then the machine rebooted. However, I was still able to print to my CGP-220 printer and capture sound using a friend's Perfect Sound audio digitizer. I figured it was OK. Until last night, when my new DigiView (which works fine on a friend's 2000) refuses to digitize ANYTHING on mine. If I try to get a histogram it shows NO samples at all. If I try to digitize it HANGS MY MACHINE! I checked the signal being fed to it from my color splitter and it appeared to be a perfectly normal grayscale picture. My question: Is it possible for me to have damaged my parallel port in such a way that DigiView will not work but still be able to print and digitize using Perfect Sound? John Munsch
aaron@stat.tamu.edu (Aaron Hightower) (12/25/90)
> >My question: > Is it possible for me to have damaged my parallel port in such a > way that DigiView will not work but still be able to print and I don't know, John.. but... I had a problem once where I could print on my Star SG-10 printer, my Canon PJ-1080A (same as Radio Smack's CGP-220), and digitize with Perfect Sound 3.0, but I could not communicate with ParNet. The problem was a bad parallel port in my Amiga 1000 (that I am guessing I created by plugging in/out my Perfect Sound digitizer V[1-2].? .. :-) ) It could very well be your parallel port (IMHO.) > >John Munsch Aaron Hightower