I am trying to acces my parallel Syquest Sparq 1GB drive. I'm running kernel 2.4.2 with the epat, pd, and paride compiled as modules. The BIOS is set to use EPP and I'm mounting /dev/pda1.
Now I can mount /dev/pda1 no problem and I can do an 'ls' and get output no problem. However when I try to erase anything from or write anything to the drive the process goes into an uninteruptible sleep mode (ps shows D) which cannot be killed. Rebooting is not possible either. dmesg shows the following message over and over again: pda: do_pd_write_drq: status = 0x10050 = SEEK READY TMO Does anybody know what is happening? Pascal [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: the file permissions on /dev/pda1 are as follows brw-rw---- 1 root disk 45, 1 Nov 16 22:09 /dev/pda1
