Linux Drivers for Avatar Drives?

Posted by Cliff on Friday March 31, 2000 @08:30AM from the more-reasons-companies-should-publish-specs dept.

eoPh asks: "I recently aquired myself an Avatar Shark, a beautiful little portable 250meg removable disk drive. I only have one slight little problem. The company that makes these suckers has gone bankrupt and I need some linux drivers or even some good information so I can begin coding my own. Maybe an ex-employee of Avatar reads /. and is willing to help, because I don't think that I'm the only person to have run into this problem. " This is the classic case as to why I feel companies should open their specs. When I buy a device, I want to know what I'm getting and how it works. I don't want to become utterly dependent on the company that makes it, because it might not be around forever.

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Linux support is available! by rak3 · 2000-03-31 06:02 · Score: 2

Today is your lucky day, very nice drive, so small and portable! You didn't specify parallel port or PC Card version, but here's the instructions for the Parallel port version:

(as root)
modprobe paride
modprobe epat
modprobe pd

Good Luck!