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  • From: "Karolis Lyvens" <karolisl AT gmail.com>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] Parallel port CD-ROM drive
  • Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:04:07 -0400

Here's what i get when insmodding kbic.o:
Using knic.o
paride: k951 registered as protocol 0
paride: k971 registered as protocol 1

I tried all of hdXes, but they all are unoccupied: "Block device not found"

The curious thing i have noticed is, when insmodding pcd.o, i get
several messages:
insmod: unresolved symbol register_cdrom
insmod: unresolved symbol unregister_cdrom
insmod: unresolved symbol cdrom_fops

Could this mean i have to insmod cdrom.o?

On 5/21/06, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
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.
>>>
>>>
>>> keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
>>> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
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