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Re: Help: ADAPTEC AHA2940AU fails with Umax scanner
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Thu Sep 4 18:20:00 1997
To: Rob Block <rblock@Eng.Sun.COM>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, rblock@hsmpk12a-s2.Eng.Sun.COM,
"Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Sep 1997 12:11:26 PDT."
<199709041911.MAA19153@century.eng.sun.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 1997 15:38:28 -0400
Rob Block writes:
>I'm getting scsi errors that cause a kernel panic when I boot my system
>(2.0.30-patch7) with a Umax S12 scanner attached to the external port of
>my 2940 Ultra card. I don't get the errors with the cable disconnected.
A *lot* of people on comp.periphs.scanners are having real problems under
all sorts of OS's, including Windows NT and Windows 95, with Adaptec
controllers and several brands of scanner, including Umax scanners. I'm
told that adaptec scsi line driver circuitry is suspect.
michaelkjohnson
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