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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: "baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org" <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Parallel port CD-ROM drive
  • Date: Sat, 20 May 2006 21:27:32 +0000 (UTC)

On Sat, 20 May 2006, Karolis Lyvens wrote:

Is it possible to connect external parallel port CDROM drive to BasicLinux?
The model is MULTIPORT CD-JET SL.

Looking through 2.2.6 kernel modules, i couldn't find anything about this
kind of device...


http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/paride.html
Linux Parallel Port Home Page, link to IDE page, which discusses a variety of parport IDE devices including our zip drive (needs imm.o or ppa.o).

Our parport zip drives need also parport.o and parport_pc.o, so probably does your device. Our drives are 'scsi' so don't emulate IDE in linux.

Yours is parallel-IDE/ATAPI. In addition to parport.o and parport_pc.o you need paride.o (basic IDE parport driver), pcd.o (high level driver for CD-ROM parport device) and a low-level driver specific to your drive, listed at the above URL. We have a backpack, which needs bpck.o .

Steven has compiled and posted a large bzimage.big 2.2.26 kernel and all the above modules at the BL3.40 home page.

kernel 2.2.6 is used by Slackware 4.0, but BL has switched to a later kernel in the 2.2 series that supports some USB devices and probably has fewer bugs than 2.2.6. You can use it with other kernels (and matching modules). 2.4.31 supports USB storage (camera, memory stick). I posted David Moberg's kernel and modules (also my own, a bit smaller with less device support).

While looking for the home page I ran across a Wikipedia entry for 3.40 and a Softpedia entry claiming the latest version is 3.32. Same press release in both.


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
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