On Wednesday 11 December 2002 05:58 am, John McQuillen wrote: > 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... Thanks, found the documentation and am doing the homework. Sometimes with this stuff it is just knowing what man to call for or what search term to use. A lot of "that is not intuitive" involved. Thanks for the Help guys, I will let you know how it goes. -- Dennis M. linux user # 180842
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