Problems with I/O to Syquest Sparq

[Pascal Hos <paashaas@rice.edu>]

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
paashaas@rice.edu

PS: the file permissions on /dev/pda1 are as follows
brw-rw----    1 root     disk      45,   1 Nov 16 22:09 /dev/pda1