Ben Stanley wrote:
> Steffen Kluge wrote:
>
>
>>On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 11:53:46AM +1000, Ben Stanley wrote:
>>
>>>Unfortunately, the aic7xxx_old driver is no longer supported, so I hope the
>>>aic7xxx driver is fixed soon. I'll email the author.
>>>
>>I thought the author was Adaptec, sort of. Wasn't that the reason
>>to phase out the old driver?
>>
>
> In the course of trying to solve the problem, I did a bit of reading around...
> this message was the one that gave me an idea on how to fix it.
>
> http://uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0104.1/0202.html
>
> The maintainer of the adaptec scsi driver is Justin Gibbs, who actually started
> writing the drivers for BSD, then handed the project over to Doug Ledford.
> Justin was recently employed by Adaptec to take the drivers back and re-write
> them. So it seems that Adaptec wants to support these drivers.
>
> http://opensource.adaptec.com
>
> I emailed Justin about the problems but so far I haven't heard back. I should
> probably mail to the linux kernel mailing list.
>
> Ben.
>
>
I've been having great problems with the new aic drivers in the 2.4.x
kernel and my scanner. This particular scanner is a Polariod SprintScan
35+ which sane does not support. I use vuescan with it (and sane for my
HP IIIc).
In contacting the aic mailing list, they insist that the problems I have
are related to my software. The author of the software took debugging
logs of the old driver, and the new driver, and gave me a report of the
differences. When I presented this to the aic mailing list, they didn't
give it any attention.
So my point is this: the old driver works (I can still boot 2.2.18 and
use my scaner), but the new driver seems to have some real problems.
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