Do you have parport_pc module loaded? As far as I remember my tweaking with Zip drives 2 years ago, that was the part of the puzzle I was missing. Correct me if I am wrong: 3 modules are needed for the Zip: parport_pc, lp, and ppa If you have your 7.0/older system alive, could you check what modules are loaded when you use the Zip drive? On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 12:21:51AM -0600, Jerry Kreps wrote:
It seems that version 7.1 is the first SuSE release that I am not able to install on my PC as I have the previous releases.
Using the Zip Drive Mini-Howto, as I did with SuSE 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 7.0, I was able to easily install Zip100 on my lp1 port and mount it as sda4. Not with 7.1.
I make mrproper to start fresh, then in make menuconfig I set the kernel as: scsi support = Y scsi disk support = Y Iomega zip support as a module (ppa not imm - old zip drive) printer support as a module
Somewhere there you need to check parport_pc also.
then make dep, clean bzImage, modules, modules_install. Then depmod -a (doing this or not doesn't make a difference) Then I copy bzImage to /boot/vmlinuz-jlk and System.map to /boot/System.map. Then I ran Lilo with a section pointing to my new kernel. (Love the new Lilo, BTW!).
A reboot brings up the new kernel, I can see the ncr53c810 scsi card load. It has an IRQ of 11.
But, uncharacteristically, modprobe ppa fails:
root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi/ppa.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi/ppa.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.18/scsi/ppa.o: insmod ppa failed
Checking interrupts I see that my lp0 parallel card has an IRS 11.
Modprobe lp also fails: root@JLKreps:/home/jerry > modprobe lp /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/lp.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/lp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/lp.o failed /lib/modules/2.2.18/misc/lp.o: insmod lp failed
Strangly, modprobe parport loads, but doesn't allow anything.
Also, It seems the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device, but probably because ppa won't insmod, because the 'resource is busy'.
I haven't had the lid off my box in over two years. I'm not going to take it off for 7.1. JLK
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