14 Nov
2010
14 Nov
'10
1:04 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Roger Merchberger
<zmerch-cctalk at 30below.com> wrote:
Right -- check these out; same manufacturer, similar but not exactly the
same picture, different prices:
http://www.amazon.com/Port-Expresscard-Parallel-Adapter-Card/dp/B001Q7X0W6
[[ this is the "good" one - see the single 5* review ]]
I tried one of these PCIe ExpressCard parallel port adapters:
Syba SD-EXP50021
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839328023
Based on the MCS9901 PCIe I/O controller chip:
http://www.moschip.com/mcs9901CV-CC.php
If you have old parallel port device software which only works with
legacy parallel port I/O address (e.g. 0x378) you are probably out of
luck since there is no way to manually configure the port I/O address
of the adapter card.
I was able to get the SD-EXP50021 to work with an Altera
ByteBlaster-II cable to program a Cyclone device using Quartus II
running on Windows 7 (32-bit). I had to do some .INF hacking to
manually load the standard parport.sys driver for the adapter LPT port
instead of the driver that it came with. I also did some registry
hacking to get the ByteBlaster driver installed. I'm not sure why I
couldn't get the ByteBlaster driver installed a normal way.