John Lange (jlange@cgc.ca)
Thu, 2 Sep 1999 14:17:38 -0500
I'm surprised that it did go to the list. I know I sent it there, but I
figured it would reject since I'm not subscribed with this email address.
Anyhow,
Before I go any further.. Can you define "made 3 paperweights out of..." ? I
hope your not saying that just by hooking it up and loading a few modules
that I've potentially destroyed my drive?
BTW, it's a brand new drive with a fresh tape. Both right out of the
packaging.
Regarding the mother board; it may be a problem. This is my development
machine that I use for experimenting. The actual machine it will be
installed on is much newer and should not have any mother board or BIOS
problems. I didn't want to try this on that machine because it is a
production server and things that require recompiling the kernel or never
much fun :)
Thanks again for your help.
John Lange
-----Original Message-----
From: J. Scott Berg [mailto:jsberg@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:02 PM
To: John Lange
Cc: 'John Lange'; 'linux-parport'
Subject: RE: [PARPORT] Error using HP 5GB drive
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, John Lange wrote:
> I can't reply to the list right now because I'm at work, so I'll send it
> directly to you (repost it to the list if you like).
Actually, you did send to the list.
> I tried rebooting the machine, but now when I try and load the modules I
get
> this in dmesg:
>
> #Insmod paride
> dmesg = paride: version 1.04 installed
>
> #insmod epat
> dmesg = paride: epat registered as protocol 0
>
> # insmod pt
> /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/pt.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> dmesg =
> pt: pt version 1.04, major 96
> pt0: Autoprobe failed
> pt: No ATAPI tape drive detected
>
> The drive is still hooked up, so it must be confused now. I can't power
> cycle the drive right now because the whole machine is remote. I'll have
to
> wait until tonight to try it again.
Well, that's certainly a bit weird. I'm waiting for someone who knows
what they're talking about to chime in here... If no one has a better
idea, try powering everything down and restarting, and see what
happens. Just for kicks, don't have a tape in when you reboot and
load the module (it really shouldn't matter, but who knows).
Also, try to make your earlier errors appear with a new tape.
You may just need to replace the drive. Check if it works under
Windows, if possible. I've made 3 paperweights out of Seagate IDE TR4
drives, and maybe HP's drives aren't any better (FWIW, I haven't had
any problems yet with my HP TR4 parallel port drive).
Oh yeah--when you load pt, use the verbose=1 option and report that
insmod pt verbose=1
> Could the original problem of reading from the drive be caused by
incorrect
> parallel port settings in the BIOS? What is the correct setting, and what
do
> you do if you don't have that one available. This is an older Pentium 100.
Maybe, EPP (NOT EPP/ECP), replace the motherboard B~( The latter is
not such a bad idea anyhow, you can probably do it for less than $200
for a MB and CPU.
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