Re: [PARPORT]Mandrake 7.1 and Backpack CD-RW

From: Walt Nickels (wnickels@lucent.com)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 10:48:51 EDT

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    Thanks to all. The following got me up & reading from my external
    CD-RW. Now I will play with "cdrecord" to see if I can write to it.

    Nick

    Joshua Franklin wrote:
    >
    > If you just want to use it for read, you can
    > get the ``offical'' drivers from micro-solutions at
    > http://www.micro-solutions.com/software_library/linux/
    > The README from their tar.gz lists these steps for
    > 2.2.x+ kernals:
    > cp backpack.o /lib/modules/<kernal>/misc/backpack.o
    > insmod parport
    > insmod paride
    > insmod backpack
    > depmod -a
    > modprobe pcd
    > mkdir /mnt/pcd
    > mount /dev/pcd0 /mnt/pcd
    > All these steps may or may not be necessary for your
    > kernal version, and of course you can call your mount
    > whatever you want. It works for me...now if they'd
    > just release the source so we could get install
    > boot disks. My solution was to sent ``Linux--Source
    > for drivers to make boot disk--Please!!'' to their
    > comment form at
    > http://www.micro-solutions.com/webmaster/index.html
    >
    > Joshua Daniel Franklin
    >
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