Re: [PARPORT] DEC Alpha and Avatar Shark Drive


grant@torque.net
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 09:13:07 -0400 (EDT)


> I'm new to paride drives, and was wondering if you all could help me
> out. I have a DEC Alpha SX164 Motherboard with RH6.0 and an Avatar Shark
> 250. I compiled paride, epat and pd as modules and installed them. When I
> insmod paride and epat, they're fine, but when I try it with pd, it says
> that the autoprobe failed. Is there some compatibility problem with Alphas,
> or am I just missing something.

When you load pd, please add "verbose=1" and then report the relevant
messages from your kernel log. You can use 'dmesg' to get the most
recent messages.

There is a problem with the parallel port on some "UDB" motherboards.
It's a recurring topic here. If you have a spare PCI slot, get an
add-in parallel port like the Lava card. Even if it worked, I think
the UDB port is only SPP.

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