Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:

>I installed Mandrake 9 yesterday, no apparent problems. I tried using my HP 
>5p SCSI scanner today and xsane can't see it. If I do "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" 
>both my SCSI devices are recognized. I have a CD burner set up as IDE-SCSI 
>that had been working fine along with the scanner. Now neither work. I 
>notice when I boot the system the first message I get is that the scanner 
>SCSI card driver doesn't get loaded, then I get "insmod exited abruptly". 
>Where should start looking for the problem? It's beginning to look like a 
>general SCSI problem.
>
>Thanks,
>  
>
>  
>
Well I don't know a lot about this but if your SCSI Card driver isn't 
loading
then you will not be able to see the scanner so I think you need to 
start with it.
dmesg should give you a good starting point as it reports errors at boot 
time
which should give you some clues.
best wishes,
norm

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