[sane-devel] Xsane locks system w/UMAX Astra 1200S

[David Anderson]

This box has always been stable.  And yes, I can burn CDs fine, which
also led me to believe the card is fine.

I'm probably going to try getting the SCSI card to use another IRQ.  I
should be able to manually asign it in the BIOS.

On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:40, abel deuring wrote:
> David Anderson schrieb:
> > Gentoo Linux w/2.4.22 kernel.
> > 
> > XSane .91 installed.
> > 
> > When I run XSane, it detects the Umax Astra 1200S (Scsi) scanner.  When
> > I click 'Acquire Preview' or 'Scan', the scanner starts to go and then
> > the system hangs.  Mouse won't move, can't toggle numlock, and can't
> > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to kill X.  
> > 
> > Any thoughts?  What's strange is this did work a few months ago. 
> > Nothing has really changed as far as I know.  I.E.  No new devices have
> > been added to the system, and no settings were changed, at least that I
> > know of.  
> > 
> > As far as I can guess, this is some sort of resource conflict.  I'm just
> > not sure how to go about troubleshooting.  Advice is welcome.
> > 
> > The SCSI card is Adaptec 2930.
> 
> The aic7xxx driver is quite stable, so even if you have a broken scanner 
> or broken SCSI cabling, you should simply get some error messages. A 
> completely frozen computer lets me suspect a serious problem with the 
> hardware of your Linux box. I'd recommend to test another SCSI adapter 
> (Adaptec are generally fine), and, if that's possible for you, to test 
> the same Linux installation on a different computer.
> 
> > 
> > cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows:
> > 
> > Attached devices:
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor: UMAX     Model: Astra 1200S      Rev: V3.1
> >   Type:   Scanner                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor: HP       Model: CD-Writer+ 9200  Rev: 1.0e
> >   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 04
> 
> Can you successfully access the CD writer?
> 
> Abel
>