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

On Sun, 21 May 2006, Karolis Lyvens wrote:

> Thanks, it seems it'll work now, but one more question: how can i
> create the device file and mount it? The script supplied gives some
> kind of weird error: "-sh: ./parcd: not found" (parcd is the filename
> i have given to this script). Maybe i need to install bash instead of
> sh?

When I use my parallel port zip drive, the driver lets me know the device 
name after I insmod it, in my case sda4 (or sdb4 if there is a real scsi 
drive).  My device is pseudo-scsi (it uses drivers written for scsi zip 
drive).

I would guess yours will be a /dev/hdX (X being some lower case 
letter of the alphabet).  If you have two hard disks on the first 
controller, they will be /dev/hda and /dev/hdb.  A CD-ROM drive inside the 
computer would be /dev/hcd (secondary master) or /dev/hdd (secondary 
slave).   Maybe your external one would show up as /dev/hde?  I think 
Steven already has that device in BL3.

Please post the script that you wrote to insert the modules for your 
drive.

> On 5/21/06, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
> > 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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