Re: RE (or more questions): [PARPORT] ValueStor problems


Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net)
Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:14:40 -0400 (EDT)


> Maybe my question is more or less related to the previous one or not at all.

You could be onto something :-)

> I do not exactly remember the error messages, but I am sometimes
> using an IDE hard disk from linux with the paride.o, on26.o and pd.o
> and have not succeeded in using a drive strapped as slave.

You're not "supposed" to use an IDE drive jumpered as a slave, unless the
master is present, so pd doesn't support that configuration.

If you'd like to do an experiment, please locate the two lines in pd.c that
include the pattern:

        WR(0,6,0xa0

Change the 0xa0 to 0xb0, and recompile pd.c. That will address the
commands to the slave. If that works, I'll add support for slave
drives in pd. Please let me know.

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