Marcel Landman (mlandman@timing.ltd.uk)
Thu, 04 Nov 1999 02:07:44 +0000
Hello, I am having a bit of trouble installing the modules
for my tape drive on my laptop. I wonder if I should give up.
This is what I have:
I have a Toshiba 320CDS Pentium 155Mhz (with copro bug)
and 96 Mb RAM. The Tape unit is a Hewlett Packard
Colorado 5Gb connected to the (only) parallel port.
Rumor has it, that this tape drive is supported.
I am running version 2.0.36 version Kernel, Red Hat 5.2
In my BIOS I have two options, "ECP" and "Standard Bi-directional",
which I hope means EPP. I get the same result with both settings.
This is what I did:
1022:~>insmod paride
1023:~>insmod epat
1024:~>insmod pt drive0=0x278 verbose=2
/lib/modules/2.0.36/misc/pt.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
This was in /var/log/messages:
Oct 31 20:48:11 madhu_tosh kernel: paride: version 1.02 installed
Oct 31 20:48:14 madhu_tosh kernel: paride: epat registered as protocol 0
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt: pt version 1.04s, major 96
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt0: epat: port 0x278, mode 0, ccr
ff, test=(255,255,510)
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt0: epat: port 0x278, mode 1, ccr
ff, test=(255,255,510)
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt0: epat: port 0x278, mode 2, ccr
ff, test=(255,255,510)
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt0: epat: port 0x278, mode 3, ccr
ff, test=(255,255,510)
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt0: epat: port 0x278, mode 4, ccr
ff, test=(255,255,510)
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt0: epat: port 0x278, mode 5, ccr
ff, test=(255,255,510)
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt0: Adapter not found
Oct 31 20:48:38 madhu_tosh kernel: pt: No ATAPI tape drive detected
I got the address (0x278) from Window's device manager.
This is what I found in Window's device manager:
Printer port LPT1
memory 0278 - 027A
IRQ 5
Before I changed it, it looked like this:
ECP Extended parallel port
memory 0278 - 027A
memory 0678 - 0678
IRQ 5
DMA 3
I tried using 0x678 with both configurations, but to no avail.
This is in /proc/ioports:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-009f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : npu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
02e8-02ef : xirc2ps_cs
0300-030f : xirc2ps_cs
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03e8-03ef : serial(set)
03f0-03f5 : floppy
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f7-03f7 : floppy DIR
/proc/modules:
epat 3 0
paride 1 [epat] 1
smbfs 6 1 (autoclean)
vmnet 2 1
vmmon 3 0
autofs 2 1 (autoclean)
nfs 12 5 (autoclean)
serial_cs 1 0
xirc2ps_cs 4 1
ds 2 [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs] 2
i82365 5 2
pcmcia_core 7 [serial_cs xirc2ps_cs ds i82365] 0
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 1 1 (autoclean)
vfat 4 1 (autoclean)
That is all I can think of as relevant.
The device is working properly under Windows in both hardware
configurations.
and is also working on another machine running the same software (RH
5.2).
I also tried insmod pt without parameters to let it autodetect, but with
same
result.
Yours,
Marcel Landman
Software Engineer
Timing Ltd.
phone +44 (0)1225 - 310 490
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