Hi Stephen
First and for all thanks for replying!!!
Yes I tried this is the message after the pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0
/dev/pcd0
drive not ready
:Function not implemented
If I do this pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/pcd1 I get this
Open cd-rom: No such device
I still need help or confirmation that this will not work
thanx in advance
Guy Forssman
Op vr 06-09-2002, om 11:42 schreef Stephen Mollett:
> --- Guy Forssman <guy.forssman@advalvas.be> wrote: >
> > pg0 is the only thing wich let you writing to if you
> > have a parallel
> > writer.
> > pcd act as a cdrom and doesn't allow writing.
>
> Sounds like packet-cd doesn't support parallel-port
> drives yet. The pktcdvd device has to be attached to
> the CD-ROM block device, not the generic device which
> is a character device (eg. pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0
> /dev/sr0 [or scd0] for SCSI drives). Even with the
> patch applied, you can't mount the CD device itself
> read-write; you still have to set up the pktcdvd
> device and mount that. The patch just tweaks the
> CD-ROM devices so that they can be used by pktcdvd.
>
> Have you tried 'pktsetup /dev/pktcdvd0 /dev/pcd0'?
>
> Stephen
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