Re: Uh - Q!

From: Michael Vanecek (mike@mjv.com)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 17:07:37 PST

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    I'm using the 1220s with roughly the same card. There's a brief blurb
    about the card at
    http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-umax-config-doc.html

    At the end of my /etc/rc.d/rc.local I added the following line:

    /sbin/insmod g_NCR5380 ncr_irq=254 ncr_addr=0x220 dtc_3181e=1

    Your mileage may vary - I used ncr_irq=254 because I wanted the irq to
    be autoprobed though I don't think it even has an irq, and the ncr_addr
    for my particular card was 0x220 - if 0x280 gets funky with you try the
    others listed: "can be: 0x220 0x240 0x280 0x2A0 0x2C0 0x300 0x320 0x340"

    Do the insmod manually from outside of X (so if it locks up you can at
    least go to another terminal and rmmod or kill the other session). I
    locked up X while trying to get the 0x280 to work. Your card may be
    different, so try a few until you get the right one. These cards are
    notoriously simple which means a simple autoprobe doesn't necessarily
    turn up anything useful. But I refused to purchase another card (well,
    my wife refused to let me) so with a little tinkering, I got mine to
    work.

    Tinker away...
    Mike

    Enno wrote:
    >
    > Hi sane people(s)!
    >
    > I do not tend to clobber devellopers lists with user faq, but sane more
    > or less invited me to do so this time. I've RH 7.0 running on a 686,
    > i've a Umax Astra 1200S with this obscure SCSI-PCI-card (UDS-IS11/ISA
    > SCSI Controller Card i guess), and i don't quite get it working. Sadly
    > the documentation is contradictive (or else i fail to get the point).
    > After following most of the steps recommended in the FAQ, i rest up with
    > a /proc/scsi/scsi of
    >
    > Attached devices:
    > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 03 Lun: 00
    > Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 1200S Rev: V2.8
    > Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
    >
    > when the scanner is on, so at least the card seems to communicate with
    > the kernel.
    >
    > syslog messages say:
    >
    > Dec 5 19:24:03 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : interrupts not enabled. for
    > better interactive performance,
    > Dec 5 19:24:03 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : please jumper the board for a
    > free IRQ.
    > Dec 5 19:24:03 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : at port 0x280 interrupts disabled
    > options CAN_QUEUE=16 CMD_PER_LUN=2 release=1 generic options
    > AUTOPROBE_IRQ AUTOSENSE USLEEP, USLEEP_POLL=1 USLEEP_SLEEP=20 generic
    > release=7
    > Dec 5 19:24:03 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : Generic NCR5380/53C400 Driver
    > Dec 5 19:24:03 Cyrano kernel: scsi : 1 host.
    > Dec 5 19:24:23 Cyrano kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
    > Dec 5 19:24:58 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : interrupts not enabled. for
    > better interactive performance,
    > Dec 5 19:24:58 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : please jumper the board for a
    > free IRQ.
    > Dec 5 19:24:58 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : at port 0x280 interrupts disabled
    > options CAN_QUEUE=16 CMD_PER_LUN=2 release=1 generic options
    > AUTOPROBE_IRQ AUTOSENSE USLEEP, USLEEP_POLL=1 USLEEP_SLEEP=20 generic
    > release=7
    >
    > Dec 5 22:30:21 Cyrano kernel: Detected scsi generic sg0 at scsi0,
    > channel 0, id 3, lun 0
    > Dec 5 22:30:24 Cyrano kernel: scsi0 : weirdness
    > Dec 5 22:30:42 Cyrano last message repeated 3 times
    >
    > and
    >
    > Dec 5 20:16:34 Cyrano modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
    > char-major-81-[0-3]
    >
    > The scanner even did react somewhat to scanimage, as it did move some up
    > and down but not writing anything 2 file, and xsane (?) from gimp says
    > module crashed.
    >
    > Any other recommendations than 'buy a proper scsi card'?
    >
    > Brgds from Vienna, Enno.
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