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n Mon, 12 Jan 1998 19:46:28 -0800 (PST), Steve Parker wrote: >On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Paul Khoury wrote: > >> > ECP is faster, bi-directional is safer. Use whatever works best with >> >your peripherals. >> Ahhh, so that's the primary difference between EPP and ECP. > > The best answers are either "read the docs for everything you have and >pick the fastest mode everything supports" or "try it and see what >happens." It's not as if trying the faster modes will hurt anything. Well, I only use it currently for my portable printer, and for ULing/DLing files to other computers from OS/2's Boot from Drive A: for diagnostics, and EPP works for me. > >> But SPP is regular parallel, right? > > Yup. Standard Parallel Port. It the lowest and slowest and most >compatible of them all. I get a little over 100K/sec with my external >IDE<->parallel drive using SPP mode and over 800K/sec using ECP. SPP runs >it fine, but a 1x CD-ROM can out-run it. Heh heh. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 32 Processes with 102 Threads. This machine's uptime is 1d 0h 34m 50s 867ms.