> I'm trying to get my parallel port ZIP drive working on my DEC
> multia. I just recompiled a new kernel and config'd it for the PPA
> low-level scsi driver. However, when I boot I get this message:
> May 13 23:31:25 alpha kernel: PPA: unable to initialise controller at
> 0x378, error 1
The ZIP drive does indeed work with the Alpha, it just requires a
bit extra effort. You have two options:
* Instruct the ppa driver (either via command line arguement if
module, or modify the source if it is going to be static in the kernel),
to use port base 0x3bc for the parallel port. The UDB Alpha parallel port
is at a different address than the PC ones. Look at the source code for
more information on how to do this, it should be pretty obvious.
* The other method is go and get the most recent version of ppa
(1.39) (more recent than in recent kernels) from
www.torque.net/~campbell/, and put it in to your kenerl source tree
(/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi) and recompile. The newer version is able to
scan the ports for a ZIP drive, and usually is able to find the ZIP drive
automatically on my UDB.
Either of these solutions should work. Good Luck!
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