Re: Parallel Port Wigglers PCI Cards and XP

Jim <tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The solution was to change the parallel port from ECP to standard
> bi-directional mode. As far as I know this can only be done via the
> PCs BIOS settings.

Note he was talking about PCI cards, not onboard ports. The BIOS
should have nothing to do with the behaviour of such a thing.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
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