Re: [Sheflug] Parallel IDE CD-ROM frustrations

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, James Wallbank wrote:

> insmod pcd drive0=0x378,1
>
> ..but I don't really know what the 0x378 means (a memory location?)
> - or what to replace it with to get a result. Can you help?

It looks like an I/O address for the paralell port. Look in the BIOS,
my /proc/ioports says:

0378-037a : parport0
037b-037f : parport0

0x378 is the standard address.

Check to see what is using that I/O port.

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