[PARPORT] Re: drives over 8GB

From: Tamas Vincze @ NEB (@)
Date: Thu May 24 2001 - 09:29:41 EDT

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Hi Kyle,

> 1) parallel port drive is being seen as an 8gb drive, when it is a 20gb
> drive? what needs to be changed to fix this?

Apply the attached patch to /usr/src/linux/drivers/block/paride/pd.c
to enable LBA mode on large drives. Be careful, it hasn't been
widely tested! Try only with drives that don't contain important
data.

> 2) I can load the modules manually and access the drive, but when the system
> is rebooted the modules are not loaded? what needs to be done to get the
> modules to load at boot?

Add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
/sbin/insmod parport
/sbin/insmod paride
/sbin/insmod backpack
/sbin/insmod pd

Tamas

application/x-gzip attachment: pd.patch-1.06.tar.gz

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