[PARPORT] Problem with Backpack harddrive


Jon Forsberg (zzed@cyberdude.com)
Wed, 08 Jul 1998 02:20:21 +0200


I have an old Backpack harddrive, 406 meg with just one big DOS-partion
on it.
It works without any problems in DOS with Micro-Solutions own driver but
I'd like to use it in Linux instead.

cilika# insmod paride
paride: version 0.94 installed
cilika# insmod bp
paride: bp registered as protocol 0
cilika# insmod pd verbose=1
pda: bp: 0x278 unit 69 mode 0: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16
pda: bp: 0x278 unit 69 mode 1: 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19 19
19 19 19
pda: bp: 0x278 unit 69 mode 2: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0
pda: bp: 0x278 unit 69 mode 3: 0-32 0-32 0-32 0-32 0-32 0-32
0-32 0-32
pda: bp: 0x278 unit 69 mode 4: 0-32-32-32 0-32-32-32 0-32-32-32
0-32-32-32
pda: bp 0.94, backpack 22404569 unit 69 at 0x278, using mode 0 (4-bit)
pda: Conner Periphe, 832288 blocks [406M], (839/16/62), fixed media
 pda: pda1
cilika# mount /dev/pda1 /mnt
cilika# ls /mnt

And I get the names of the 6 dirs I have on it but also a lot of
 garbage with unreadable characters mostly in the form aaaaaaaa.aaa.
When I try to cd into one of the dirs I get:

Filesystem panic (dev 2d:01, mounted on 03:03:245)
  FAT error
  File system has been set read-only
Directory 6962: bad FAT

I have nothing else using the same paralell port.

/Jon Forsberg.

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