Trying to get a backpack drive to be recognised by my system. Using the pportide.i boot disk (for Slackware 8.1 - and then "ramdisk root=/dev/hda3" to access the root on my hardrive) the CDROM is accessed (light flashes) and recognised as

Then when I try to mount this device using eg "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" or similar it doesn't find the CD drive. One error reports something about "is not a valid block device".

I gather that PARIDE is in the Slack8.1 kernel? (though I don't really understand what that means, yet. How can I mount this device (a backpack bantam with on board sound card (model 181200))?

Do I need to use the pportide.i boot disk or not? If I do, how can I then get the necessary modules into my kernel?

Thanks in advance ... UR 3l337

/dev/cdrom is always a symlink to the real IDE device name, if this creates a third IDE controller and the cdrom is the second device on it, then the cdrom should be mounted as /dev/hdf.

Lemme get this straight though, there's a soundcard in this device that's accessed through Parrallel.

Okay, that's weird, got a link to a picture of this oddity?

Cheers,

Finegan

There's a bit about it here http://www.micro-solutions.com/tech_...docs/2207.html and also a similar picture to my model is here http://www.arcade-electronics.com/microsol/bb.jpg .. the soundcards built in under the slotted part at the back ... 16 bit sound with line in/out mic and speaker sockets. It never worked very well under windows ... the CD's now going on linux, had to mount it as /dev/pcd0 ... foundthis from the dmesg o/p. Wonder if I'll get the sound working!!!???

pbhj

This one makes me curious since I never knew such creatures existed before. SO I looked throuhg /usr/src/linux/Documentation/paride/blahblahblah and looked at the kernel help file for the module info, its under block devices. There's some pretty interesting stuff, but I still have no clue if the kernel supports the soundcard in this thing. You probably have a module loaded called bpck or bpck6; from what I've read I don't think they support the sound card in the drive... but if they somehow do its just an ess 1688 chip, so you can try the alsa modules, but from what I can tell it's probably provided under the stock pss.o module, modprobe it and see. I'd be curious just for kicks if you could post the "dmesg" chunk about this thing. Remember to use {code} {/code} With square brackets instead of braces so it doesn't hork the formatting.

Also, unless you were installing via this oddity, you could have gotten by with bare.i and modprobing the paride module and then one of the two bpck modules from above.

Cheers,

Finegan