On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, Matthew Davidson wrote:
> 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.
>
I'm using the HP5P, on the same scsi card, with a 2gb JAZ drive in
line, and it seems to work fine.
SANE even worked first time too !!
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Jon
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