On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 16:08, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 09:17, Dennis Myers wrote: > > A friend gave me one of those cases that you can put a spare hard drive in and > > it uses a parallel port connection. It is generic and has no FCC # on it, but > > the box says it works for hard drives. Anyone have any idea how to access it > > to format and read/write to it? It runs on a seperate power supply and shows > > up in hard drake as an SBLive joystick. ( I think). Is this thing useless or > > what? Any help is appreciated. > > > If you don't have the parallel IDE support in the kernel (i.e. module) > you're not going to be able to access it properly. Check if you've got > that module (lsmod to view loaded modules) and see what's listed as > "parport" (parallel port). If you DON'T see any modules for the parport, > you might try loading 'em (insmod parport_pc, insmod parport) and trying > again...
The parallel port IDE device module is paride Read the documentation /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt for detailed usage. Especially note that you should set your BIOS to use EPP mode rather than ECP mode for your parallel port. Regards, John...
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