Robert,
What is the serial number on the bottom of your Backpack hard drive?
Also, do you see "Series 6 Driver" located on the bottom?
Try the following from a command prompt:
modprobe bpck (bpck6 if "series 6 driver")
modprobe pd
What happens?
Does this Backpack work elsewhere? Have you changed either the hard
drive mechanism inside the Backpack or reformatted the hard from
its factory format?
Sincerely,
Al Crowley, Technical Support Assistant Manager
MicroSolutions, Inc.
http://www.micro-solutions.com
At 01:08 PM 1/5/2002 -0600, Robert W. Yarbrough wrote:
>I have just loaded RedHat 7.2 on a compaq 7400. I followed the instructions
>found at gear.torque.net/parport and also in some other areas. I loaded up
>parport, (insmod parport) no messages. I load paride, (insmod paride) no
>messages, I load bpck, (insmod bpck) no messages. I try to load PD for my
>Backpack Harddrive (insmod pd) and I get an error message pd.o:
init_module:
>Operation not permitted. I noticed that in the troubleshooting section of
>gear.torque.net/parport/paride that the PARIDE protocol modules do not
>support ECP mode parallel ports. The compaq BIOS settings for the 7400
>doesn't allow me to change mode of the parallel port, I can either enable it
>or disable it and change the resources. I am checking with compaq to see if
>there is a way to change the mode theough the BIOS settings. The compaq
>website wasn't much help...but for now, it looks like I'm stuck.... any
>ideas??? Is there a way to emulate EPP? Here is the dmesg
>
>paride: version 1.06 installed (parport)
>paride: bpck registered as protocol 0
>pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
>parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
>parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
>parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
>parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
>pda: Autoprobe failed
>pd: no valid drive found
>ide-floppy driver 0.97
>Disallowing DMA for hdb
>hdb: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
>cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
>CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
>PPP generic driver version 2.4.1
>PPP BSD Compression module registered
>PPP Deflate Compression module registered
>pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
>pda: 0x378 is parport0
>pda: Autoprobe failed
>pd: no valid drive found
>
>
>Thanks in advance for all your help!
>
>-Robert
>
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