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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-02-15 02:15:32 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-02-15 02:15:32 +0000
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@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ parallel port IDE subsystem, including:
SyQuest EZ-135, EZ-230 & SparQ drives
Avatar Shark
Imation Superdisk LS-120
+ Maxell Superdisk LS-120
FreeCom Power CD
Hewlett-Packard 5GB and 8GB tape drives
Hewlett-Packard 7100 and 7200 CD-RW drives
@@ -76,6 +77,7 @@ support is available for almost all known adapter protocols:
epia Shuttle EPIA (UK)
fit2 FIT TD-2000 (US)
fit3 FIT TD-3000 (US)
+ friq Freecom IQ cable (DE)
frpw Freecom Power (DE)
kbic KingByte KBIC-951A and KBIC-971A (TW)
ktti KT Technology PHd adapter (SG)
@@ -111,10 +113,12 @@ and high-level drivers that you would use:
MicroSolutions 8000t tape pt bpck
SyQuest EZ, SparQ pd epat
Imation Superdisk pf epat
+ Maxell Superdisk pf friq
Avatar Shark pd epat
FreeCom CD-ROM pcd frpw
Hewlett-Packard 5GB Tape pt epat
- Hewlett-Packard 7100/7200 pg epat
+ Hewlett-Packard 7200e (CD) pcd epat
+ Hewlett-Packard 7200e (CD-R) pg epat
2.1 Configuring built-in drivers
@@ -299,7 +303,6 @@ and LS-120 drives. Traditionally, media for these devices are not
partitioned. Consequently, the pf driver does not support partitioned
media. This may be changed in a future version of the driver.
-
2.5 Using the pt driver
The pt driver for parallel port ATAPI tape drives is a minimal driver.
@@ -307,27 +310,29 @@ It does not yet support many of the standard tape ioctl operations.
For best performance, a block size of 32KB should be used. You will
probably want to set the parallel port delay to 0, if you can.
-
2.6 Using the pg driver
The pg driver can be used in conjunction with the cdrecord program
-to create CD-ROMs. Please get cdrecord version 1.6.1a3 or later
-from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ (you may have to look
-in the alpha subdirectory). To record CD-R media your parallel port
-should ideally be set to EPP mode, and the "port delay" should be
-set to 0. With those settings it is possible to record at 2x speed
-without any buffer underruns. If you cannot get the driver to work
+to create CD-ROMs. Please get cdrecord version 1.6.1 or later
+from ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrecord/ . To record CD-R media
+your parallel port should ideally be set to EPP mode, and the "port delay"
+should be set to 0. With those settings it is possible to record at 2x
+speed without any buffer underruns. If you cannot get the driver to work
in EPP mode, try to use "bidirectional" or "PS/2" mode and 1x speeds only.
3. Troubleshooting
+3.1 Use EPP mode if you can
+
The most common problems that people report with the PARIDE drivers
concern the parallel port CMOS settings. At this time, none of the
PARIDE protocol modules support ECP mode, or any ECP combination modes.
If you are able to do so, please set your parallel port into EPP mode
using your CMOS setup procedure.
+3.2 Check the port delay
+
Some parallel ports cannot reliably transfer data at full speed. To
offset the errors, the PARIDE protocol modules introduce a "port
delay" between each access to the i/o ports. Each protocol sets
@@ -341,6 +346,25 @@ to each of the high-level drivers. Please see the notes above, or
read the comments at the beginning of the driver source files in
linux/drivers/block/paride.
+3.3 Some drives need a printer reset
+
+There appear to be a number of "noname" external drives on the market
+that do not always power up correctly. We have noticed this with some
+drives based on OnSpec and older Freecom adapters. In these rare cases,
+the adapter can often be reinitialised by issuing a "printer reset" on
+the parallel port. As the reset operation is potentially disruptive in
+multiple device environments, the PARIDE drivers will not do it
+automatically. You can however, force a printer reset by doing:
+
+ insmod lp
+ rmmod lp
+
+If you have one of these marginal cases, you should probably build
+your paride drivers as modules, and arrange to do the printer reset
+before loading the PARIDE drivers.
+
+3.4 Use the verbose option and dmesg if you need help
+
While a lot of testing has gone into these drivers to make them work
as smoothly as possible, problems will arise. If you do have problems,
please check all the obvious things first: does the drive work in
@@ -369,6 +393,8 @@ of two ways. Either send it directly to the author of the PARIDE suite,
by e-mail to grant@torque.net, or join the linux-parport mailing list
and post your report there.
+3.5 For more information or help
+
You can join the linux-parport mailing list by sending a mail message
to
linux-parport-request@torque.net