[PARPORT] SparQ problems

From: Jeremy Malcolm (Jeremy@Malcolm.wattle.id.au)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 10:38:13 EDT

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    I was on this list about two years ago for a while when I bought a
    SparQ drive. It carked it after a few months, and I have been waiting
    18 months for a warranty replacement. It only just arrived. (Sigh.)

    So I am now back to square one on a different system, encountering a
    new problem. (Disclaimer: I am not a programmer I am just an end
    user.) I load the modules OK, and I can read an existing (already
    DOS-formatted) SparQ disk fine. However I want to create a new ext2fs
    SparQ disk. I can partition this new disk with no problems.

    However after a short time, in the course of making the filesystem I
    get the error "Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short
    read while creating root dir". I can overcome this by creating just a
    small filesystem in a small partition, and I can mount that partition,
    but after a minute it will umount itself, I can't "cat /dev/pda" any
    more, and mkfs says "fdisk says "Unable to read /dev/pda".

    I fix that by "rmmod pd ; rmmod epat ; rmmod paride" and then "insmod
    ....", but the same thing will immediately recur when I try again.

    I get errors like this in the log:

    Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: pda: Lock: status = 0x4051 = ERR SEEK
    READY UNC
    Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: pda: do_pd_read: status = 0x4051 =
    ERR SEEK READY UNC
    Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus last message repeated 5 times
    Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 2d:00
    (PD), sector 0
    Apr 30 22:11:17 terminus kernel: pda: Lock: status = 0x4051 = ERR SEEK
    READY UNC

    Can anyone offer any advice, per chance? Is there any other
    information I should provide?

    TIA

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