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Re: Unidentified subject!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Fri Nov 13 15:02:38 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 14:39:07 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Try manually insmod-ing the modules involved before you
try to mount. This is necessary with certain other parallel port devices.
The dependency info in these modules is not deterministic, so the kerneld
cannot do it automatically.
Adam Pritchard wrote:
> I have just recompiled my kernel with the low-level scsi drivers for my parallel port ZIP drive (ppa), I boot up without problem and receive the following kernel messages: -
>
> Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Version 1.42
>
> Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Probing port 03bc Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Probing port 0378 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: SPP port present Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: EPP 1.9 with hardware direction protocol Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32
> bit Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP
> 32 bit Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: ppa: Probing port 0278 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.1E: PCI Ultra 240 CDB: IO 6
> 000/F, IRQ 9 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: scsi1 : Iomega parport ZIP drive Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
> Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: J
> .03 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI S CSI revision: 02 Nov 12 23:49:39 adam kernel: scsi : detected total.
>
> This tells me that my ZIP drive was detected and is contactable via the SCSI bus.
>
> Everything was fine until I came to mount it. There were no /dev/ppa* devices! I have no idea why these devices don't exist.
>
> I am running RedHat 5.1 with a freshly compiled 2.0.35 kernel, I have compiled the ppa support into the kernel, no modules involved.
>
> Could somebody help me with this?
>
> Adam.
>
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