[PARPORT] "Device busy"


Brian T. Schellenberger (bts@babble.on.home)
Mon, 12 Jul 1999 20:48:15 -0400


I'm having troubles with device-busy messages . . .

I use to use my sparq drive without difficulty, but lately I've been
having
trouble with "device busy" messages. Moreover, I just acquired an HP
7500 CD-Writer and I'm running into the same difficulty.

Actually, I sent mail to Grant about this Sunday and then yesterday told

him to ignore it; this time I'm sending it to the list (now that I'm
back *on*
the list). This problem is not consistent; yesterday it turned out that
I had
a file queued up to print and when I cleared the print queue and
rmmod'ed
lp, I could insmod pg. But today lp rmmod's fine and nothing is in the
queue,
yet pg won't insmod.

Paride and epat insmod just fine.

Another, possibly related, problem is that even when pg was insmod'ing
ok, cdrecord couldn't seem to talk to it. I knew that it was an
HP 7500; it
could identify it ok, but it always said that it was "not
responding" and
suggested that I power-cycle it. Of course, power-cycling it didn't
help.

I am running redhat 5.2 with the default kernel (2.0.36),
on a 2-year-old HyperBook laptop. I've checked, and the port is in
"EPP & SPP mode" (there is no "EPP only" mode available in the bios
setup).

If I've forgotten some valuable datum, I'm sure y'all will remind me.

PS: Because it's a laptop, I only have one serial port and adding
another
one is difficult, so as a diagnostic tool that's a last resort.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

% insmod pg verbose=on
/lib/modules/preferred/misc/pg.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
[[bts@babble bts]$ dmesg
Memory: sized by int13 088h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f6f10
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xf6f20
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf6f41
Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 66.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30824k/32768k available (748k kernel code, 384k reserved, 812k
data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP
Linux IP multicast router 0.07.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.

Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done
Linux version 2.0.36 (root@porky.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1
Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
hda: TOSHIBA MK3205MAV, 3102MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=411/128/63
hdc: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-1502B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 128988k swap-space (priority -1)
sysctl: ip forwarding off
Swansea University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035
IPX Portions Copyright (c) 1995 Caldera, Inc.
Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5
  kernel build: 2.0.36 unknown
  options: [pci] [cardbus]
Intel PCIC probe:
  Intel i82365sl B step at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
    host opts [0]: none
    host opts [1]: none
    ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,7,9,10,11 status change on irq 11
cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x1220-0x122f 0x1378-0x137f
0x1388-0x138f 0x13e0-0x13e7 0x13f0-0x13ff 0x1620-0x162f 0x1778-0x177f
0x1788-0x178f 0x17e0-0x17e7 0x17f0-0x17ff
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x378-0x37f
0x388-0x38f
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: excluding 0xa20-0xa2f
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
registered device ppp0
lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found.
paride: version 1.02 installed
paride: epat registered as protocol 0
pg: pg version 1.02s, major 97
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
pg: pg version 1.02s, major 97
pg0: epat: port 0x3bc, mode 0, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x3bc, mode 1, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x3bc, mode 2, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x378, mode 0, ccr 0, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x378, mode 1, ccr 40, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x378, mode 2, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x378, mode 3, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x378, mode 4, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x378, mode 5, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x278, mode 0, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x278, mode 1, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x278, mode 2, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x278, mode 3, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x278, mode 4, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x278, mode 5, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x268, mode 0, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x268, mode 1, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x268, mode 2, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x268, mode 3, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x268, mode 4, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x268, mode 5, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x27c, mode 0, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x27c, mode 1, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x27c, mode 2, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x26c, mode 0, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x26c, mode 1, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: epat: port 0x26c, mode 2, ccr ff, test=(255,255,510)
pg0: Autoprobe failed
pg: No ATAPI device detected
[[bts@babble bts]$

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Brian T. Schellenberger, "Brian, the man from babble-on"
babbleon@bigfoot.com

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