Re: paride problems (2.1.91)

Grant R. Guenther (grant@torque.net)
Sat, 28 Mar 1998 15:13:21 -0500 (EST)


> I've just compiled 2.1.91, and it doesn't see my SyQuest SparQ drive. Before
> rebooting I was working with SparQ, and everything worked just fine (under
> 2.1.90) kernel. 2.1.91 shows
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7, dma 3 [SPP,PS2,ECP,ECPPS2]
> instead of
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECPPS2]
> (as 2.1.90 did). As far as I understand, that is good :) But it seems to me
> that parport changes broke paride support. pd says "Autoprobe failed". When I
> try to load pd module (when it is set to "M" in kernel config), it says also
> "Device or resource busy".
> I tried paride + epat + pd as modules and compiled into the kernel.

(1) Please use the module version and load pd with the "verbose" option.
Send me the resulting log messages.

(2) Try building PARIDE _without_ PARPORT. It should work, but the
the port sharing feature will be unavailable. If it doesn't work,
then the problem is not with PARPORT.

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