Re: backpack CD on Toshiba laptop

[Giuseppe Sacco <gsacco@hsomail.com>]

> Anyone willing to educate me on how to mount a parallel port CD in
> Linux?

I use a cd writer connected to a parallel port on a toshiba laptop.
what I usually do is:
1. plug the cable (!)
2. modprobe paride
3. modprobe epat	(this is the protocol I am using)
4. modprobe pg		(parallel generic)

What I also did was to
4. modprobe pcd
5. mount -t iso9660 /dev/pcd0 /cdrom

It works. I used kernels 2.0.34, 2.0.35, 2.1.128, 2.1.129, 2.1.130 without
problems.
To modprobe this modules you have to be root user.

Bue,
Giuseppe