del@fnx.UUCP (Dag Erik Lindberg) (01/15/91)
We recently added a laser printer to a 386 system, which included adding
a second parallel port. The port is extremely slow. A graphics file
which takes 20 minutes to print with the printer attached to the original
port takes over 2 1/2 hours to print on the new port.
Details: The original port showed up on /dev/lp2, the new port shows up
on /dev/lp1. The original sdevice entry had only one line in it,
identifying port 378 with interrupt 7. After the initial attempt to print
was so slow, I added the additional line below, for a port at 278 using
interrupt 5. This made no difference in performance. Here is sdevice:
lp Y 1 3 1 5 278 27f 0 0
lp Y 1 3 1 7 378 37f 0 0
What's going on here? The print spooler won't even deal with this thing,
it keeps timing out and sending the banner page over and over again. I
can only print anything by sending it directly to the port with 'cat'.
Thanks for any insight you can share.
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