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["Karolis Lyvens" <karolisl AT gmail.com>]

Now i have insmodded cdrom.o before pcd.o, and i don't get that error,
but still, i get
insmod: init_module: pcd: Device or resource busy

The /dev/pcd0 is still free... Block device required

On 5/21/06, Karolis Lyvens <karolisl AT gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> > >>>
> > >>>
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