On December 1, Craig Condit wrote:
> I have been having some difficulty getting my scanner to operate
> correctly with the recent kernels. I have a UMAX Astra 610S flatbed
> scanner connected to an Adaptec 2910 controller (AIC-7850). This
> combination worked flawlessly under 2.0.34, 2.0.35, and 2.1.125.
> Unfortunately, something happened either in 2.1.126 (which I didn't
> run), or 2.1.127 which broke SANE. If I do a preview, the scanner locks
> up about halfway down the page, and also locks the application. Under
> kernel 2.1.129 I actually had a system lock up after attempting to
> access the scanner again.
>
> I have tried this using all the above kernel versions, and with SANE
> 0.74 and the recently released SANE 1.0. I don't know what is causing
> the problem, and the system logs do not indicate a problem. I suspect
> the problem may lie in the SCSI generic code in the kernel, or in the
> ever-changing Adaptec aic7xxx driver.
As of kernel 2.1.131ac10, the problem appears to be fixed. According to
the Changelog, the aic7xxx driver was updated to the lastest release,
and that appears to have fixed the problem. Kudos to those working on
this driver.
Craig Condit
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