🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi all,

Hoping someone out there on the list will have a solution for me - I
think I'm part of the way there already...

Running: Toshiba Laptop with Red Hat 6.2 - and have a HP Colorado 5Ge
external parallel port tape backup unit I *desperately* need to get
working (yes, I *am* a backup freak - a habit I got into in the days
when windoze was even *less* stable than it is today:-)

After checking out the parport website I got some of the information I
needed - about loading the paride driver, epat driver and pt driver -
and found that by manually doing a modprobe command for all three I was
able to get a response from the tape drive (i.e. it started accessing
the tape in the drive) - this is the most success I've had thus far:-)

When I try using 'insmod' for Paride I get the following messages:

/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
parport_enumerate_Rdcb625ab
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
parport_claim_R46138e04
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
parport_register_device_Ra78805aa
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
parport_unregister_device_R857406d1
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/paride.o: unresolved symbol
parport_release_Re207d4f8

However, there is no problem loading it using MODPROBE...

After this, I am able to 'insmod' (or modprobe) EPAT okay, then PT - at
which point the tape drive starts to make some nice noises that sound
like I've actually got somewhere...

At this point, tail -f /var/log/messages reveals:

laptop Kernal: paride: version 1.04 installed
laptop Kernal: paride: epat registered as protocol 0
laptop Kernal: pt: pt version 1.04, major 96
laptop Kernal: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
laptop Kernal: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present
laptop Kernal: pt0: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
laptop Kernal: pt0: epat 1.01, Shuttle EPAT chip c6 at 0x378, mode 2 (8
bit), delay 1
laptop Kernal: pt0: HP COLORADO 5GBe, master, RO, blocksize 512, 2458 MB

At this point I start thinking that I've made it - BUT, then I try to
use one of my backup programs (KDAT, Taper, etc.) to try and USE
/dev/pt0 as my backup device and nothing happens - although another tail
-f /var/log/messages reveals this:

laptop Kernal: pt0: Unimplemented ioctl 0x801c6d02

I *know* there is something more I need to do - to get my tape drive
working - but DON'T know WHAT - HELP???:-)

Many thanks in advance.

John Oliver.