Re: [PARPORT] Paride/epat problems.


Brian S. Boothman (bboothman@unitedmold.com)
Wed, 26 Jan 2000 08:28:48 +0000


I was unaware of the need for the high level driver.
Your suggestion works well.

Thank you very much.
    Brian Boothman

Praveen Srinivasan wrote:

> Assuming you compiled it, there should be a pcd module, i.e.
> insmod pcd (possibly with some arguments).
> Then mount your drive, and it should work.
>
> Praveen Srinivasan
>
> "Brian S. Boothman" wrote:
>
> > Paride seems to detect my parallel port cdrom fine when I use the
> > precompiled kernel with paride support. When I try to load paride and
> > epat as modules using the "bare" kernel I have no luck.
> > When loading the modules there is no response.
> > I used the following commands.
> >
> > insmod paride
> > insmod epat
> > mount /dev/pcd0 /cdrom
> > pcd0 is not a valid block device! "or somthing close to that"
> >
> > I am certain that pcd0 does exist in /etc/fstab
> > I am certain that epat is the proper protocol.
> > What am I missing?
> >
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