Al:
Thanks very much for your assistance.
The drive does read CD-RW discs just fine (including that Debian disc)
under Windows (95 and 2000) using standard drivers. I was actually
surprised (and quite pleased) to see that and have never had any
trouble at all with CD-RW discs under Windows. FIWI, the CMOS
setting I'm using under Linux is identical to the one I use under Windows.
Is it even necessary to have a disc in the drive when pcd is loaded? I have
tried both commercial CD-ROM and CD-RW discs with equal results. In
my quest, I've seen dmesg samples posted which seem to indicate that
the drive itself responds to pcd with some return data, such as:
> pcd0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
> pcd0: BACKPACK Protocol Driver V2.0.2ac
> pcd0: Copyright 2001 by Micro Solutions, Inc., DeKalb IL.
> pcd0: BACKPACK 2.0.2ac, Micro Solutions BACKPACK Drive at 0x378
> pcd0: Unit: 45 Mode:1 (8-bit) Delay 0
> pcd0: identify completion: alt=0x88 stat=0x88 err=0x188 loop=160001
> phase=136
> pcd0: Request sense before command: alt=0x88 stat=0x88 err=0x188
> loop=160001 phase=136
I don't get any of this. All I get is "adapter not found", "autoprobe
failed", or
"no CD-ROM drive found". I get the same results whether the drive is
connected
or not, so it seems to me like pcd isn't seeing the drive at all. I
never get to the
point where the drive will mount to read the disc, although I have tried.
Since my last post, I got a hold of setid.exe and confirmed that the
unit ID is
indeed 33 as it's supposed to be based on the serial number. I was
suspicious
that this might have been changed way back when, but now I know we're using
the correct value.
Any further suggestions or ideas would be much appreciated. I suppose I
could live with Windows on this machine, but I'd really rather not have to.
<grin>
Thanks again.
=Dave
AL Crowley wrote:
>
> What type of media do you have in the Backpack? If you downloaded
> Debian and burnt it to CDRW media, that older drive will not read
> CDRW's. I would also verify that you can read from that Debian CD in
> the Backpack under Windows.
>
>
>
> At 05:34 AM 12/14/2003, you wrote:
>
>> Greetings:
>>
>> I'm struggling with a particularly obstinate system:
>>
>> 1) Toshiba T2150 Satellite notebook (port at 0x378 is
>> running in standard bi-directional mode since the only
>> other choice is ECP).
>>
>> 2) Backpack CD-ROM, model 164700 (quad speed), which works
>> under Windoze 95 (the only other OS that'll run on this
>> little beast due to CPU and memory - 28 MB - limitations).
>>
>> 3) Debian 3.0r1, install CD ready to go (if I could read
>> it) since network is not yet available to the machine.
>>
>> Attempting a fresh install from floppies, all goes well
>> until I try to recognize the CD-ROM drive. I load modules
>> until I have the following according to lsmod:
>>
>> parport
>> parport_pc
>> paride
>> bpck
>>
>> and then pcd will not load on matter what I've tried.
>> I've gone through all of the parameter possibilities I
>> can think of, centered about the ones that seem most
>> correct:
>>
>> insmod pcd drive0=0x378,0,33
>>
>> (33 = last two digits of the drive's serial number)
>>
>> Every time, module installation fails and dmesg shows
>> "adapter not found", "autoprobe failed", or "no CD-ROM
>> drive found". Everything from no parameters, to specifying
>> all 6 manually, to different unit numbers, to specifying
>> no unit number, etc. all lead nowhere.
>>
>> Any assistance or suggestions would be gratefully
>> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> =Dave
>>
>>
>>
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>
>
> Thank You,
>
> Al Crowley, Technical Support Assistant Manager
> Micro Solutions
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