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On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 12:52:39 -0500, Wyn Achenbaum wrote: >A few days ago, I posted an inquiry about my zip drive difficulties with >my TP560. It turns out that the parallel port is the problem (I can't >print, the CD-ROM doesn't work).. A friend called IBM tech support last >night, and tried a couple of things, including running a Looptest (F1 >for Easy-Setup, test on parallel port, Ctrl-A for Tool and Looptest). >They ran the Looptest with the zip drive, but it should be run with a >loopback cable. The three local places IBM suggested were a) >uninterested since I didn't buy from them, b) closed, and c) closed. >The fourth place had not heard of a loopback cable. > That's weird. >What is a loopback cable, and what is the problem I am looking for? A loopback tests the pins and lines in a serial or parallel port. Am >I going to be replacing the parallel port? The machine is about 6 >months old. > I doubt it; parallel ports RARELY fail; it's probably a software problem. What OS are you trying to use with it? -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 23 Processes with 84 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 7h 26m 7s 710ms.