SuSE Linux: Versions since 6.0
Kernel: Version 2.0.36
Installation of a device equipped with an IDE CONTROLLER at the parallel port.
Due to the simplicity and the universality of the parallel port on the PC, many external devices such as external non removable disks, CD-ROMs, LS-120, and magnetic tape drives use the parallel port.
The adaptor chip reproduces a small IDE device in the external unit and makes available both reading and writting unit register operations and data block transfer functions in the communication protocol.
Currently supported devices (version: Jan 24, 1998):
MicroSolutions backpack CD-ROM MicroSolutions backpack PD/CD MicroSolutions backpack hard-drives SyQuest EZ-135, EZ-230 & SparQ drives Avatar Shark Imation Superdisk LS-120 FreeCom Power CD FreeCom Traveller CD Maxell SuperDisk LS-120 Hewlett-Packard 5GB tape drive Hewlett-Packard 7100 and 7200 CD-RW drives
as well as the most clones and no-name devices within this range.
This document does not apply to port SCSI devices (e.g. ZIP drive, Streamer, or scanner with parallel port - SCSI controller)
Read the documentation in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride.txt.
The current references can be found at http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html.
An additional tip:
Always use modprobe instead of insmod, since modprobe ensures that the modules needed by the module we are going to load will also be loaded.
Thus, simply enter:
modprobe pfand you should get these messages in /var/log/messages:
Jan 28 01:35:01 Bari kernel: paride: version 1.02 installed Jan 28 01:35:01 Bari kernel: pf: pf version 1.03s, major 47, cluster 64, nice 0etc.