Zach Pardos (security@solarweb.com)
Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:29:13 -0600
Raul Leote de Carvalho wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am having problems getting my HP 7200e
> to work. I first tried to set the parallel
> port to EPP. Unfortunately, my PC gives me
> two possibilities only: PS/2 and AT. I
> have tried both. With PS/2, after doing:
>
> insmod paride
> insmod epat
> insmod pg
>
> I find with dmesg
>
> pg0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8-bit), delay 1
> pg0: HP CD-Writer+ 7200, slave
>
> and if I use AT instead of PS/2 the mode is 0.
>
> Then, when I do
>
> mount /dev/pcd0 mnt/cdrom/
>
> I get the error message
>
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/pcd0 as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
>
> I have played with the mkd script on
> http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html
> to make devices but this did not solve the problem.
>
> Thanks
> Raul
>
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insmod pg (/dev/pg0) loads the module which enables you to write with your
CDR. You must load the block device module `insmod pcd` to be able to mount
/dev/pcd0. My system wouldn't allow both to be loaded at the same time, so
rmmod pg before loading pcd....bleh.
ICQ 4824402
Zach Pardos
Solarweb Development
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