[sane-devel] Suse-Kernel 2.6.5 and umax astra 1220 S

[Wolfram Heider]

Am Dienstag, 26. Oktober 2004 22:11 schrieb abel deuring:
> Wolfram Heider wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > when I recently updated from Suse 8.2 (2.4er kernel)  to Suse 9.1 with
> > kernel 2.6.5, my scanner, a UMAX Astra 1220 S which had worked well
> > troughout all the kernel-versons of the last years, was gone without the
> > slightest trace. scanimage -L, sane-find-scanner and the other little
> > helpers remainend silent about it.
> > Maybe it's not a really sane-problem but a controller-problem.
>
> yes, it's most likely a problem in the Linux SCSI system. To look for
> SCSI scanners, sane-find-scanner reads /proc/scsi/scsi, and the contents
> of this proc file is "managed" by the SCSI system of the kernel.
>
> > The controller in use is a Dawicontrol DC-2975-C which connected till now
> > over the sym53c8xx/ncr53c8xx-module.
> > The strange thing is that with the kernel 2.6.1 of the knoppix
> > 3.4-distribution everthing works as usual.
> > The Suse-Kernel still comes with the sym53c8xx-module, but something
> > seems to be wrong with it.
>
> Are you sure that the sym/ncr53c8xx module is indeed loaded? And if it
> loaded, do you get any error messages in /var/log/messages?
>
> The sym/ncr53c8xx drivers offer many parameters; perhaps it helps to
> play with some of them. The file
> <kernel source dir>/drivers/scsi/README.ncr53c8xx describes these
> parameters quite detailed.
>
> Abel

Hello Abel,

here is the output a "modprobe sym53c8xx" produces in /var/log/messages:

Oct 26 23:11:16 linux su: (to root) ich on /dev/pts/3
Oct 26 23:11:16 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su 
Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: sym0: <875> rev 0x26 at pci 0000:00:11.0 irq 12
Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity 
checking
Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
Oct 26 23:11:32 linux kernel: scsi0 : sym-2.1.18i
Oct 26 23:11:38 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: ABORT operation started.
Oct 26 23:11:43 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:11:43 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:11:48 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:11:48 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: BUS RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:11:53 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:11:53 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: HOST RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:11:53 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
Oct 26 23:11:58 linux kernel: sym0:0:0: HOST RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:11:58 linux kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error 
recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Oct 26 23:12:03 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: ABORT operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:08 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:08 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:13 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:13 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: BUS RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:18 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:18 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: HOST RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:18 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
Oct 26 23:12:23 linux kernel: sym0:1:0: HOST RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:23 linux kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error 
recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 1 lun 0
Oct 26 23:12:29 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: ABORT operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:34 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:34 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:38 linux su: (to root) ich on /dev/pts/7
Oct 26 23:12:38 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su 
Oct 26 23:12:39 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:39 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: BUS RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:42 linux su: pam_unix2: session finished for user root, service 
su 
Oct 26 23:12:42 linux su: (to root) ich on /dev/pts/7
Oct 26 23:12:42 linux su: pam_unix2: session started for user root, service su 
Oct 26 23:12:44 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:44 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: HOST RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:44 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.
Oct 26 23:12:49 linux kernel: sym0:2:0: HOST RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:49 linux kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error 
recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 2 lun 0
Oct 26 23:12:54 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: ABORT operation started.
Oct 26 23:12:59 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: ABORT operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:12:59 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: DEVICE RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:13:04 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: DEVICE RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:13:04 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: BUS RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:13:09 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: BUS RESET operation timed-out.
Oct 26 23:13:09 linux kernel: sym0:3:0: HOST RESET operation started.
Oct 26 23:13:09 linux kernel: sym0: SCSI BUS has been reset.

Sounds as there is something fundamental going wrong. Can you make it out?

Greetings

Wolfram