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I know that this is probably not a bug, more likely my own ignorance, but I cannot get Red Hat 6.0 to recognize my Backpack cdrom after the initial install. The installation goes fine, parallel port cdrom recognized from the boot.img disk, no problems, but when I try to mount the cdrom (mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom) after the install, I get the msg: you must specify filesystem. So I type: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and I get the msg: the cdrom does not exist. Then, I go into /etc/fstab and change the line: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto, ro 0 0 to: /dev/bpcd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto, ro 0 0 then at the command line I type: mount /dev/bpcd /mnt/cdrom and I get this msg: you must specify file system so I type: mount -t /dev/bpcd /mnt/cdrom and I get this msg: the kernel does not recognize /dev/bpcd ad a block device(maybe 'insmod driver'?) Any help would be greatly appreciated, the Red Hat user list has not been able to help me up to this point. I am concerned that I may have the same situation with Red Hat 6.1 that I am waiting on a boot.img disk that supports parallel port cdroms. Thank You, John Mannion
Remembering that the backpack plugs into the parallel port as a PARIDE unit, I would suspect that you will need to enable and load the paride subsystem. If so, try the following commands: modprobe paride modprobe pf When you've done that, retry your mount command - it should now work.
I have tried the commands you gave me: modprobe paride modprobe pf When I type in modprobe pf I get this message: /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/pf.0:init_module:device or resource busy problem? Thanks, John Mannion
The error message looks like the IRQ (or parallel port) is already in use by another device. Check the BIOS settings for the parallel port.
I have checked my bios for interrupt conflicts, none exist. Com1 has irq 4 and my parallel port irq is set to 7. John Mannion
I presume adding alias paride_protocol pf to /etc/conf.modules doesn't fix the problem either?
You are correct, nothing seems to be working. John M.
You can close this "bug". I have resolved my parallel port cdrom issue. Thank You