Brian,
Please let me know the following:
1. 8 digit serial number on the bottom of the Backpack
2. Does the Backpack say "Series 6 Driver" on the bottom
3. Kernel version
At 03:20 PM 8/11/2002 -0700, Brian M. Sutin wrote:
>
>I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT with vanilla Redhat 6.0 and a recent
>Backpack CD-ROM, which included no DOS drivers. I set the BIOS
>parameters for the parallel port to bi-directional and did:
>
> insmod parport
> insmod paride
> insmod bpck
> insmod pcd
>
>The "insmod pcd" command responded that the Autoprobe failed to detect
>the drive (which was connected and powered up). Any suggestions? I
>could probably dig up a Redhat 6.1 distribution, if it would help.
>
>Once I get the drive working, is there a way to use it to install
>Redhat 7.0 or 7.3?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Brian
>
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