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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Sat, 20 May 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> 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.

According to another site, your CD-ROM drive has chip KBIC-971A and the 
third module for it would be kbic.o, so insmod paride, insmod pcd, insmod 
kbic.

How would we determine the chip name from the device itself?


> > 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.
>
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