On Tue, 5 May 1998, Vidiot wrote:
> >> Have you recompiled your kernel by any chance? I had the same crap happen
> >> to me when I recompiled the kerenel with GNU GCC 2.8.1. It seems that there
> >> are I/O problems when compiling with the 2.8.1 compiler.
> >
> >Yes, i did. But my gcc version is 2.7.2.3 which comes with Redhat 5.0.
> >I actually tried two ways to support my zip drive, that is thru the kernel
> >and loadable modules but still got the same error message.
>
> Interesting. The kernel that comes out-of-the-box for 5.0 and the ppa
> module that comes with it, works without having to recompile. I say works,
> but not very well. It is a very old and uses 4-bit transfers, making it
> extremely slow.
>
> That means you need the newest ppa module. Obtain the source from:
>
> http://www.torque.net/~campbell/
>
> This driver autodetects and uses the best mode possible for the particular
> parallel port. Much faster.
>
> I have not tried to use it with a recompiled kernel. I've used the stock
> kernel and this module, which I compiled.
>
> BTW, you need to load the module with insmod. That may be why you were having
> some problems. I have the loading placed into the rc.local file, so that it
> gets reloaded at boot time.
>
I have already downloaded and compiled the new ppa by D. Campbell, but it
doesn't work for me. I recompiled my kernel to support the my zip drive
as a loadable module and used insmod to load ppa and got this error
message:
ppa: Version 1.41
ppa: Probing port 03bc
ppa: Probing port 0378
ppa: SPP port present
ppa: ECP with a 16 byte FIFO present
ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present
ppa: Passed Intel bug check.
ppa: EPP 1.9 with hardware direction protocol
ppa: Probing port 0278
scsi : 0 hosts.
./ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Still, ppa reports that the device is busy.
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