Huh. Well, Zip drives hook up to the parallel port and pretend to be SCSI, but I do see drivers/block/paride/bpck.c and bpck6.c, which is probably what you need, try getting kernel/misc/bpck.o.bz2 from the tomsrtbt add-ons archive, note, I have never tested this driver... -Tom
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Declan Moriarty wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 11:13:22 +0100 > From: Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [tomsrtbt] Parallel port cdroms > > I have a machine incorporating an industrial pc, and the cdrom that > came with it is a King Byte parallel port job. There appears to be a > problem with this. > > It had scsi drivers loaded and didn't work I decided it was ide, and > also tried the paride driver, but no go. I tried the cdrom in a pc - the > bios recognized it, but it wouldn't read. I tried a known good cdrom in the > backpack, but that combination did nothing either. > > I am hoping to be able to mount it under tomsrtbt to check the hardware. > I have read of /dev/bpack-something - that's as close as I got. Do they > run ide or scsi over the parallel port link? Can anyone point me at > meaningful reading? > -- > > With best Regards, > > > Declan Moriarty. >
