Re: [Sheflug] Parallel IDE CD-ROM frustrations

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

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, James Wallbank wrote:

> 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?

More likely cat something to /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/modes.
Dunno what.

But anyway, to load the modules for parport0 then check /proc/ioports to
see if parport is listed then. It should be listed along with an io port
address.


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