Hi,
a question: how do you power your 24C02 EEPROM? Did you implement the
required pull-ups? Remark, that some parallel ports give only about 3V
when high, and maybe 0,8V (ughh!!) when going low...

Check the levels!

I hope this helps.

Imre


On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Simon Redwood wrote:

> I am trying to read information from a 24C02 eeprom through the parallel
> port using C.  I can successfully random-write.  But when it comes to a
> read, I cannot get my information back out.
>
> Are timings all important when doing using the parallel port to read a i2c
> eeprom ?
>
> The CLK is controlled by the ~STROBE pin on the parallel port, does this in
> turn mean that I control the speed at which the chip is running.
>
> If anyone out there has small C program that can do a sequential or random
> read of a 24C02 and is willing to elp I would be most  grateful.
>
> TIA
> Simon
> spredwood@sri-net.demon.co.uk
> ICQ: 12226096
>
> Pin 1 parallel ->    SCL(CLk)
> Pin 2 parallel ->    SDA(DAT) write
> Pin 13 parallel ->  SDA(DAT) read
>
>