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Started by Laurence John Oliver
Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:00
Help needed for newbie trying to use HP Colorado 5GBe with RH6.2 Laptop...
Author: Laurence John Oliver
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 00:00
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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.
Re: Help needed for newbie trying to use HP Colorado 5GBe with RH6.2 Laptop...
Author: E J
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:00
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It seem you need to recompile paride.c until you get no unresolved symbols. Check the recompile instructions, and header (*.h) until it works. Laurence John Oliver wrote: > 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.
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