Heather Stern (star@starshine.org)
Sun, 2 May 1999 20:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
I ate the fortune cookie first, then read what grant@torque.net wrote:
> The Maxell PCCard is actually from Freecom in Germany. ...
> ... In principle, all you probably need to do is to add
> a new entry into the PCMCIA configuration file. (That worked for me and
> the CD, anyway ...)
Hmm. I look forward to that -- offlist, if you like.
> > What I have is an honest-to-goodness parallel floppy; it has a standard
> > 25 pin tail, and plugs into the parallel port on the back on my system.
>
> No. It's not a _parallel_ floppy. You could not plug it into any
> other parallel port and expect it to work. The electronics in your
> computer multiplexes the connector between a parallel port and a floppy
> controller. (It's all done inside a single chip which implements
> both the parallel port and the FDC - it's a standard part from National
> Semiconductor.)
Ah. Okay, my mistake. But it still doesn't resemble a PC card :)
> As I said the first time, post the actual kernel log messages that
> occur when the drive fails, perhaps someone will be able to help with
> this, if you give us some data.
When I attempt to mount a floppy, under best circumstances, that works.
In a recent attempt, I mounted a read only MSDOS floppy (some norton utils
diskette). The mount returned with no complaint. I can cd to the mount
point and ls reveals contents.
An attempt to read a file there (less, or cat) gets a complaint at the
console:
cat: diskedit.exe: Input/output error
/var/log/messages reveals:
floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation
end_request: I/O error. dev 02:00, sector 2
bread in fat_access failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=543, limit=4
attempt to access beyond end of device
02:00: rw=0, want=543, limit=4
I trimmed off the times since all these lines has the same time, down to
the hundredths. The last two lines really are listed twice.
Whereas, using dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/usr/local/from/floppy/nu.emergency.dsk
produced a file image of the right size... 720K in this case.
I tried rebooting with a floppy=thinkpad append line, but instead of two
complaints about accessing past end, it gives 21. Other than that equally
painful.
If a helpful soul wants to take this offlist with me, I don't mind.
Ob parallel:
Does anyboody know if Laplink or Norton Commander parallel protocols
are supported by anything in Linux?
. | . Heather Stern | star@starshine.org
--->*<--- Starshine Technical Services - * - consulting@starshine.org
' | ` Sysadmin Support and Training | (800) 938-4078
VII. Certain bodies can pass through solid walls painted to resemble tunnel
entrances; others cannot.
-- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion", June 1980
-- To unsubscribe, send mail to: linux-parport-request@torque.net --
-- with the single word "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. --
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sun 02 May 1999 - 23:36:17 EDT