I've been reading (not very carefully) the discussion for the past few days
about parallel port tape drives in Linux. A while ago, I had trouble
setting up my external Ditto 800 using the bpck-fdc driver. It wouldn't
work at all for me until i told Linux to use the parallel port's IRQ line
by issuing the command:
echo "7" > /proc/parport/0/irq
You would of course replace "7" with the irq of your paralell port if it's
not using irq 7 and "/0" with the number of your paralell port if you're
not using the first one..
After I did that, the bpck-fdc module worked just like it should. Another
thing you want to do is set your paralell port (in the BIOS or on a jumper)
to use EPP mode. I have found that when it is set to ECP or ECP+EPP mode,
the bpck-fdc driver can't take advantage of any of the "advanced" features
- i.e. it goes the same speed as when the parport is set to standard mode.
This is more important on restores than backups.
Anyway, I just hoped this might help some of you.
-Rusty
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