On 2/17/19 10:38 AM, Ondrej Zary wrote:
On Wednesday 30 January 2019 06:24:08 David Melik wrote:
Earlier I'd been asking if the new USB Umax PowerLook 2100XL is
supported. It wasn't clear, and may or may not involve someone or any
new user trying to write drivers. Now I found out even the old (SCSI-2)
one doesn't work with kernels since March 19, 2018... at least not for
my Adaptec PCI SCSI-2 card (AHA-2920 or something.) The Linux kernel
just started removing drivers for plain/classic PCI hardware (and other
still-used old hardware, for years) despite brand new
system-/logic-/main-/mother-boards still being made with plain/classic
PCI slots. Is there any way I can recompile the old drivers (fdomain)
for new kernels? ... or should I just pay Umax to upgrade a scanner to
USB, or maybe buy a USB one, with the chance of it not ever working?
(maybe same situation unless I install an old/obsolete OS version.)
Looks like your AHA-2920 card is based on Future Domain chipset (AHA-2920A).
fdomain driver was removed probably because nobody wanted to remove its
scsi_module.c dependency:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10291777/
I already fixed some old SCSI drivers to prevent them from being removed but
such major driver modifications require testing on real HW.
Is there a different SCSI-2 card I might be able to find/use to get the
PowerLook 2100XL working again?
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