Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 7867
Problem getting my printer and APTI Zip drive setup.
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:53 EDT
I have a 722C HP printer and a APTI IDE Zip drive and I don't think that my parralel port and my SCSI emulation is setup correctly or at least I have tried what every one has suggested and I still can't get my printer or Zip drive working. I have put these two together because I think the problems are related. I have also tried a 560C HP, which you support(same result). Here is what I have done: I have 5 Items below: Thanks in advance for your help. 1) I have configured my Kernel this way. Here is the contents of my /etc/conf.modules: alias scsi_hostadapter ppa alias parport_lowlevel paraport_pc alias sound sb pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1 options opl3 io=0x388 alias midi awe_wave post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2 options sb dma16=5 io=0x220 mpu_io=0x330 dma=1 irq=5 2)Here is the results of my boot up using this kernel: Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs- 2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:40:35 EDT 1999 Detected 350803275 Hz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 349.80 BogoMIPS Memory: 127608k/131008k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1636k data, 64k init) DENTRY hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping 02 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0720 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.9) Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive hdb: WDC AC21000H, ATA DISK drive hdc: Creative CD-ROM CD4832E, ATAPI CDROM drive hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=784/255/63 hdb: WDC AC21000H, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=525/64/63 hdc: ATAPI 44X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines pII_mmx : 779.907 MB/sec p5_mmx : 818.769 MB/sec 8regs : 602.361 MB/sec 32regs : 337.947 MB/sec using fastest function: p5_mmx (818.769 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. change_root: old root has d_count=1 Trying to unmount old root ... okay Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed Adding Swap: 66488k swap-space (priority -1) Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.16 detected OK (220) <SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) 3) Here is what it says when I try using printools: /dev/lp0 not detected /dev/lp1 not detected /dev/lp2 not detected I'm using the pbm2ppa with my 722C HP and I know you don't support this but I can't even get printools to detect a 560C HP printer you do support. Should it at least detect a printer at this point? 4) here is what is says when I use the command /sbin/lsmod ppa: Module Size Used by nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean) msdos 5276 1 (autoclean) fat 30464 1 (autoclean) [msdos] parport_probe 2980 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport 7124 0 [parport_probe] awe_wave 157804 0 sb 33620 0 uart401 5968 0 [sb] sound 57240 0 [awe_wave sb uart401] soundlow 300 0 [sound] soundcore 2372 7 [sb sound] 5) Here is what is says when I use the command /sbin/modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy paraport: Device or resource busy
It's not a bug, it's a typo and a misunderstanding. It's alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc not alias parport_lowlevel paraport_pc As for the ZIP drive, ATAPI zip drives don't need ppa. ppa is for parallel port zip drives. Looking at your kernel output, your zip drive is recognized correctly, and is available as /dev/hdd. The problem is probably iomega's weird partitioning. If you want to mount a zip disk that was formatted using their tool in DOS or Windoze, it's /dev/hdd4 instead of /dev/hdd1, for whatever reason.