Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2004 22:11 schrieb abel deuring: > Wolfram Heider wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > when I recently updated from Suse 8.2 (2.4er kernel) to Suse 9.1 with > > kernel 2.6.5, my scanner, a UMAX Astra 1220 S which had worked well > > troughout all the kernel-versons of the last years, was gone without the > > slightest trace. scanimage -L, sane-find-scanner and the other little > > helpers remainend silent about it. > > Maybe it's not a really sane-problem but a controller-problem. > > yes, it's most likely a problem in the Linux SCSI system. To look for > SCSI scanners, sane-find-scanner reads /proc/scsi/scsi, and the contents > of this proc file is "managed" by the SCSI system of the kernel. > > > The controller in use is a Dawicontrol DC-2975-C which connected till now > > over the sym53c8xx/ncr53c8xx-module. > > The strange thing is that with the kernel 2.6.1 of the knoppix > > 3.4-distribution everthing works as usual. > > The Suse-Kernel still comes with the sym53c8xx-module, but something > > seems to be wrong with it. > > Are you sure that the sym/ncr53c8xx module is indeed loaded? And if it > loaded, do you get any error messages in /var/log/messages? > > The sym/ncr53c8xx drivers offer many parameters; perhaps it helps to > play with some of them. The file > <kernel source dir>/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx describes these > parameters quite detailed. > > Abel
Hello Abel, here is the output a "modprobe sym53c8xx" produces in /var/log/messages: Oct 26 23:11:16 linux su: (to root) ich on /dev/pts/3 Oct 26 23:11:16 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: sym0: <875> rev 0x26 at pci 0000:00:11.0 irq 12 Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: scsi0 : sym-2.1.18i Oct 26 23:11:38 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: ABORT operation started. Oct 26 23:11:43 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: ABORT operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:11:43 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:11:48 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:11:48 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: BUS RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:11:53 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:11:53 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: HOST RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:11:53 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. Oct 26 23:11:58 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: HOST RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:11:58 linux kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Oct 26 23:12:03 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: ABORT operation started. Oct 26 23:12:08 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: ABORT operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:08 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: DEVICE RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:12:13 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:13 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: BUS RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:12:18 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:18 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: HOST RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:12:18 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. Oct 26 23:12:23 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: HOST RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:23 linux kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 1 lun 0 Oct 26 23:12:29 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: ABORT operation started. Oct 26 23:12:34 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: ABORT operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:34 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: DEVICE RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:12:38 linux su: (to root) ich on /dev/pts/7 Oct 26 23:12:38 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su Oct 26 23:12:39 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:39 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: BUS RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:12:42 linux su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service su Oct 26 23:12:42 linux su: (to root) ich on /dev/pts/7 Oct 26 23:12:42 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su Oct 26 23:12:44 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:44 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: HOST RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:12:44 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. Oct 26 23:12:49 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: HOST RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:49 linux kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 2 lun 0 Oct 26 23:12:54 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: ABORT operation started. Oct 26 23:12:59 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: ABORT operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:12:59 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: DEVICE RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:13:04 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:13:04 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: BUS RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:13:09 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out. Oct 26 23:13:09 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: HOST RESET operation started. Oct 26 23:13:09 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset. Sounds as there is something fundamental going wrong. Can you make it out? Greetings Wolfram
