On Wednesday 27 June 2001 08:51, Timothy Reaves wrote:
> 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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Hi,
I have just rmoved the aic7xxx and inserted the aic7xxx_old driver. I also
have the SC driver installed. All is now working fine and results are
repeatable.
What I have done:
Downloaded the latest SG driver and un-tar into kernel tree.
make modules modules_install
reboot
now when i boot, as root,
modprobe scsi_hostadapter
lsmod
Module Size Used by
aic7xxx_old 114800 0 (unused)
parport_pc 23024 1 (autoclean)
lp 5296 0 (autoclean)
parport 24576 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
sb 7136 0 (unused)
sb_lib 33120 0 [sb]
uart401 6224 0 [sb_lib]
sound 54256 0 [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 3504 4 [sb_lib sound]
8139too 11696 1 (autoclean)
supermount 32464 4 (autoclean)
sd_mod 11048 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 86036 2 [aic7xxx_old sd_mod]
rmmod aic7xxx
insmod aic7xxx_old
scanimage -T --mode color ( finished OK)
lsmod
Module Size Used by
sg 25328 1 (autoclean)
aic7xxx_old 114800 1
parport_pc 23024 1 (autoclean)
lp 5296 0 (autoclean)
parport 24576 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
sb 7136 0 (unused)
sb_lib 33120 0 [sb]
uart401 6224 0 [sb_lib]
sound 54256 0 [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 3504 4 [sb_lib sound]
8139too 11696 1 (autoclean)
supermount 32464 4 (autoclean)
sd_mod 11048 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 86036 3 [sg aic7xxx_old sd_mod]
I don't know how to do this automatically on boot, but I edited the
/etc/modules.conf by chaning the aic7xxx entry to aic7xxx_old and the box
decided not to get past the 'detecting new hardware' prompt. I had to edit
the file back again for the box to boot OK.
Maybe someone could explain what to do?
I hope this email may help someone else who has the problems I have had and
thanks to all who made suggestions.
David.
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