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Re: HP 5P scanner supplied SCSI board driver

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn Houston)
Tue Jun 20 13:45:55 2000

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:44:18 -0800
From: Shawn Houston <houston@mosquitonet.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > After upgrading to the 2.2.16 kernel, with or without the errata patch,
> > my HP 5P scanner supplied sym53c416 SCSI interface board stopped
> > working. Kernels 2.2.12 through 2.2.15 have no problem.
> 
> There are no changes between 2.2.15 -> 2.2.16 for the sym416 driver.
> 
> > I have an ATAPI CD-RW that needs the IDE-SCSI module and I think this is
> > where the problem lies. I have had problems with interactions between
> > IDE-SCSI and the IDE subsystems locking up my system in the past when I
> > used hdparm to unmask interrupts on my IDE drive (-u1 flag).
> 
> There are tiny ide-scsi changes but they should be independant
> 
> > I already checked that the sym53c416 has not changed between 2.2.15 and
> > 2.2.16.
> 
> Try 2.2.16pre kernels. See if you can find out where it broke (start in the
> middle of the range and binary search)

The break happens in 2.2.16pre5. 2.2.16pre4 works fine.

I will see if I can isolate the change. Thanks for the direction.

-Shawn Houston

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