Re: Ditto Easy 800 Parallel

I finally succeeded in making my Ditto Easy 800 work!
I'm not really sure of what I did, since I compiled my kernel a lot of times
and I also upgraded to 2.4.18. I used the latest "unstable" version
(4.x-2002_06_13) of ftape.
Anyway, I think that the most important thing I did to make it work is
correctly configuring the /etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules) file,
inserting the following lines (probably the first one is already present):

    alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
    options parport_pc io=0x3bc irq=7

    alias char-major-27 zftape
    options ftape ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none

Clearly, if you want to use /etc/modules.conf to configure parport_pc you
have to compile the kernel parallel support as modules. Moreover, you have
to use the correct io address and irq in the line "options parport_pc":
check for instance your BIOS setup. I suspect that this was my real problem,
since I'm sure that in a certain moment, when my Ditto didn't work, the io
address I used in the line "options parport_pc" was wrong.
(Note that the line "options ftape" I've reported above works if you use
only Ditto Easy as the first ftape drive. See the ftape manual for more
information about that.)

I hope my suggestions will be useful for somebody.

Greetings,
Alessio Martini




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