On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Charles Gambrell wrote:
> I have read some of the info about using a parallel port Zip drive or
> Jaz drive under Linux but have not seen anything about the Syquest
> drives. I have a SparQ drive. Does anyone have any information, know
> where such is, or has connected this drive successfully to a Linux box.
Sure... pls. read first:
http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html
Some Installation Notes:
1. Get the latest kernel 2.0.35. If you have a lower version, you have to
patch the kernel first.
2. Recompile the kernel and add support for:
- parallel ide device support.
- parallel port ide disk (pd driver)
- shuttle epat/epez support (epat protocol)
As much as possible, compile the above as modules.
3. Run the script mkd (the script is in the URL above.) to make a pda
device in /dev. You will use this to mount your syquest sparq drive.
4. run the commands :
insmod paride
insmod epat
insmod pd
5. mount -t <filesystem> /dev/pda1 /mnt
regards,
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