This box has always been stable. And yes, I can burn CDs fine, which also led me to believe the card is fine.
I'm probably going to try getting the SCSI card to use another IRQ. I should be able to manually asign it in the BIOS. On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 17:40, abel deuring wrote: > David Anderson schrieb: > > Gentoo Linux w/2.4.22 kernel. > > > > XSane .91 installed. > > > > When I run XSane, it detects the Umax Astra 1200S (Scsi) scanner. When > > I click 'Acquire Preview' or 'Scan', the scanner starts to go and then > > the system hangs. Mouse won't move, can't toggle numlock, and can't > > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to kill X. > > > > Any thoughts? What's strange is this did work a few months ago. > > Nothing has really changed as far as I know. I.E. No new devices have > > been added to the system, and no settings were changed, at least that I > > know of. > > > > As far as I can guess, this is some sort of resource conflict. I'm just > > not sure how to go about troubleshooting. Advice is welcome. > > > > The SCSI card is Adaptec 2930. > > The aic7xxx driver is quite stable, so even if you have a broken scanner > or broken SCSI cabling, you should simply get some error messages. A > completely frozen computer lets me suspect a serious problem with the > hardware of your Linux box. I'd recommend to test another SCSI adapter > (Adaptec are generally fine), and, if that's possible for you, to test > the same Linux installation on a different computer. > > > > > cat /proc/scsi/scsi shows: > > > > Attached devices: > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 > > Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 1200S Rev: V3.1 > > Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00 > > Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9200 Rev: 1.0e > > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 04 > > Can you successfully access the CD writer? > > Abel >
