Re: Colorado Trakker Parallel drive.

smed wrote:

> This time the trakker and the bpkc-fdc module will load....however it's not working properly.
> When I look in the /proc/parport/0/hardware   I can see that the IRQ and DMA are not assigned....
> Apparently the kernel isn't able to figure those parameters out during the autoprobe at boot.
> I'm fairly certain that is the reason why the trakker driver isnt' able to read me a status off the drive.


> 
> I've recompiled the kernel so that all parallel stuff was compiled as a module.
> make clean
> make menucofig {changed all parallel stuff to be a module}
> make dep
> make bzdisk
> make modules
> make modules_install
> reboot
> 
> Still can't load the trakker module....complains heavily just like before.
> 
> Will this not work? 
> Does anyone have any advice on this....I'm pulling my fscking hair out.
> 
> I guess next I"l try the same steps as above....but recompiling the modules AGAIN.
> It doesn't seem like I should HAVE to recompile the module again......but I guess I will.
> Perhaps there is something very fundamental that I'm just overlooking.
> I can't beleive I've gone through all of this just for a stupid 250MB tape drive!
> 

I guess you need no more recompilations, but pass the appropiate options 
to the module. But I never tried to use a Trakker with ftape, so I 
cannot be of more specific help. Well, I have one rounding here, may be 
I will give it a try some day, but I will not have time to try it in the 
short term.

Browsing the ftape docs I have seen something. This page might be of 
help for you

http://www.instmath.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/ftape-manual/html/conf.modules.html

take a look at the examples and good luck


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