: From: Juergen Leising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
:
: Hallo,
:
: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 11:53:41PM +0000, Ricardo Villalon wrote:
: > Thanks for your help Rick, I downloaded the
: > ftape-4.x-1999_06_30.tar.gz, compiled it and I modified the "insert"
: > sample script as follow:
: >
: > insmod ./ftape.o ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none
: > insmod ./zftape.o ft_major_device_number=27
: > insmod ./zft-compressor.o
: you do not need zft-compressor, as that compression code is not implemented
: any more
:
: > modprobe parport || true
: I myself have never managed to get that bloody ditto working WITH the parport
: module having been loaded; and I am still forced to unload the whole
: parport stuff if I want to access my ditto max external.
This probably depends on how the kernel was configured when you
compiled ftape. The Ftape makefile looks in /usr/src/linux/.config
and if the parport interface is enabled there it will use it,
otherwise it manually grabs the hardware which doesn't work while
parport is loaded.
The solution for Ricardo is, to explicitly tell parport to use the
irq. This can be done by putting this line into /etc/conf.modules:
option parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
