Anne Merritt wrote:
>
> After numerous kernel panics, I have concluded that my
> Symbios card (Symbios Logic 53C400A) which is recognized
> by the ncr53c406a driver (and kernel panics right after)
> has seen better days. I'm not into debugging SCSI drivers
> for ancient cards, so I'm retiring it.
>
As Oliver has quoted earlier, you might have tried the wrong driver.
The driver for the 53C400A card is included in the g_NCR5380 driver.
--Peter
> I cried uncle and purchased an Adaptec SCSI card 2906,
> which takes the AIC7*** driver and is PCI plug and pray.
>
> After an uneventful kernel build and boot, the kernel
> located both the card and the scanner. from there,
> find-scanner worked and so did xscan-image.
>
> Thanks for your help! When all else fails, toss the
> crappy SCSI card. I think I'm the first Linux Chick
> on my block to get her scanner working under Linux and
> SANE.
>
> Anne Marie Merritt
>
> ---------------
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
>
> > Anne Merritt wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > I have an HP Scanjet 4C with a Symbios SCSI card that
> > > won't find the scanner on Linux. I built a new kernel
> > > with the Symbios and NCR drivers enabled, but I can't
> > > move past that.
> > >
> > > Here are the boot messages:
> > >
> > > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> > > NCR53c406a: no available ports found
> > > sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0
> > > scsi : 0 hosts.
> > > scsi : detected total.
> > > PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
> > >
> > > I don't use any kernel arguments in Lilo, but I couldn't
> > > find anywhere that could tell me what the magic words
> > > are if there are any. Does anyone know?
> >
> > According to the RH 6.0 installation guide:
> > ncr53c406a=io_port,[,IRQ[,FASTPIO]]
> >
> > and according to the source (in lk 2.3.51):
> > * LILO command line usage: ncr53c406a=<PORTBASE>[,<IRQ>[,<FASTPIO>]]
> > * Specify IRQ = 0 for non-interrupt driven mode.
> > * FASTPIO = 1 for fast pio mode, 0 for slow mode.
> >
> > These are the auto-probed ports (but autoprobing may be disabled):
> > { 0x230, 0x330, 0x280, 0x290, 0x330, 0x340, 0x300, 0x310, 0x348, 0x350 }
> >
> > looks like 0x330 is the default (use "cat /proc/ioports" to
> > see if some other piece of hardware has grabbed that port).
> > Then there's the possibility of an interrupt clash that
> > can be ruled out by using a value of 0 in the second option
> > as shown above.
> >
> >
> > The Symbios boot line for the similiarly numbered sym53c416 is:
> > * LILO command line usage: sym53c416=<PORTBASE>[,<IRQ>]
> >
> >
> > Doug Gilbert
> >
>
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