Re: [Sheflug] Parallel IDE CD-ROM frustrations

[James Wallbank <nospam [at] lowtech.org>]

Hi Again,

Okay, so I've got even more mystified, but I do have harder 
information which may help. I still have this problem with 'insmod 
pcd'. Here is the first error message I get:

># insmod pcd drive0=0x378,0
>
>Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/pcd.o
>pcd: pcd version 1.07, major 46, nice 0
>parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation
>pcd0: Adapter not found
>pcd: No CD-ROM drive found
>Using /lib/modules/2.2.17/misc/pcd.o: init_module: device or resource busy
>Hint: this error may be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
>including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

Incidentally, I've just tried rebooting with the drive attached and 
working, with a CD in the drive, and I still get the messages...

>pcd0: Adapter not found
>pcd: No CD-ROM drive found

Argch! I'm convinced I'm only a short step away from cracking this 
one, but I've searched the net and all I've found are other people 
having the same problem - but no solutions.

[... some time later ...]

Okay, so I've stripped out all of the modules I've been booting with, 
and just gone back to basics. I need to do (in this order...)

insmod parport
insmod paride
insmod epat       # Returns 'paride: epat registered as protocol 0'

Then that pesky error message comes up again! Do I have to pass some 
parameters to the parport module? When the error message says 'use 
procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation', does that literally 
mean getting a script to splice some text (I'd guess something along 
the lines of '0378-037a : parport0') into /proc/ioports? Or is there 
something else that I have to do?

Any suggestions? I'm stuck!

Cheers,

James
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