micro solution backpack cdwriter hell
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:00:44 GMT, johnny bobby bee staggered into the Black Sun and said: ? I haven't noticed this. Well, I have Flatfish, Alan Connor, and anything crossposted to .*advocacy set to score...
i've got an external backpack cd-writer. it connects via usb and parallel port. i'm having a hell of a time getting it to work with ubuntu hoary (debian-based), using either usb or parallel port.
from the micro solutions website:
"USING BACKPACK ON THE PARALLEL PORT IN LINUX The backpack parallel port driver has been included into the Linux Kernel 2.4.4 and higher. No special software downloads should be needed from this page. We recommend that you use the newest kernel version.
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:50:03 GMT, johnny bobby bee staggered into the Black Sun and said: You didn't mention what (if anything) you've tried wrt USB. USB is usually easier and faster than parport...
Please note that there are 2 backpack drivers in the Linux kernel:
bpck6.o - works with all current backpack CD-ROM, cd-rewriter, and hard drive models, which typically have a "Series 6 driver" notation on the Serial Number label on the bottom of the backpack drive.
bpck.o - works with earlier models of backpack CD-ROM (Models 163love, 164love, 165love), hard drives (850MB to 6.4GB), and original 2x cd-rewriters (Models 190100 and 190120)."
using the parallel port driver -- *no special software should be needed*? i've got both bpck and bpck6 loaded: bpck 9984 0 bpck6 68 plus 116 0 paride 8320 2 bpck,bpck6
still, no cd-burning software will recognize the device. i've tried k3b, gnomebaker and graveman. nothing sees it.
cdrecord -scanbus gives me this: Schilling NOTE: this version of cdrecord is an unofficial (modified) release of cdrecord and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. Please send bug reports and support requests to The original author should not be bothered with problems of this version.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '-dev-pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'. cdrecord: cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc cdrecord: package and readusr-share-doc-cdrecord-README.ATAPI.setup
please, someone help me out here. i've gotta boot into windows just to burn cd's. i'm hoping to rid my pc of windows entirely.
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