Re: [Sheflug] Parallel IDE CD-ROM frustrations

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

Hi All, (especially Alex)

Alex said:

>Will's addresses are correct; but I don't think the parallel port will
>necessarily show up in /proc/ioports all the time. Make sure (if you
>have parallel support compiled as a module) that lsmod shows the parport
>module loaded. Also check for the existance of /proc/sys/dev/parport/.
>Anything?

Okay...

lsmod shows parport is running. As I said in my last mail (which 
crossed with this one) I've stopped loading it at boot and started 
insmodding it by hand. You can't 'insmod paride' without it.

However /proc/sys/dev/parport doesn't exist on my system. Should I do 
something like 'echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/parport' - or is it a case of 
passing parameters (what parameters?) to parport when I insmod it, or 
is it altogether more complex than that?

In fact the whole directory /proc/sys/dev/ is empty on my system. 
But, hell, other devices work, so I'm not going to lose too much 
sleep!

Cheers,

James
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