Hello,
Has anybody had any happy experiences with the HP Scanjet 5p? I'm ashamed to
admit I've been lazy, and had mine set up to run from a legacy OS on a
dual-boot machine. Unfortunately, the drive I was running this OS from died
in a distressingly noisy manner (probably because 99.9% of the time I was
booting to GNU/Linux on another physical drive, and the drive wasn't
accustomed to reading much further than the MBR), and I'm now paying the
price for initially deciding to take the convenient way out.
The scanner runs off the Symbios 53c416 SCSI card. If the scanner is turned
off, isapnp recognises this card and I can load the sym53c416 module, and
everything is suffused with the warm glow of peace, love, and understanding.
However, if the scanner is turned on, it appears to generate some bad vibes,
and everything starts getting really heavy with messages like "IO range check
attempted while device activated" (isapnp), and "unrecoverable SCSI bus or
device hang" (insmod sym53c416), and the whole scene becomes a real bummer,
man.
Now I understand that this could be a PNP Bios issue. I have an oldish Award
Bios with PNP support that doesn't seem to be able to be turned off
completely. You can however manually assign each IRQ to either "PNP/PCI" or
"Legacy ISA". Assigning all IRQs to "Legacy ISA" makes no difference as far
as I can see, except crippling my PCI Ethernet card.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Matthew.
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