Shawn Houston wrote:
>
> Doug Gilbert or Leonard N. Zubkoff or ???:
>
> Looking through the MAINTAINERS file, this address looks like the best
> bet for reporting my problem:
>
> 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.
>
> The symtom is that when the scanner is accessed the machine freezes for
> long periods with short bursts of interaction, just like an IRQ sharing
> conflict. I tried looking in the 2.2.16 patch set, but there is so much
> change in the SCSI subsystem that I cannot pinpoint the problem.
>
> 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).
>
> I have an AMD K6-2 system with a FIC 503+ MB. HP 9100i ATAPI CD-RW,
> sym53c416,IDE HD,
> RH 6.2 base system install, custom kernel.
>
> I welcome any direction to help isolate the problem. I am not unfamiliar
> with the kernel and a pretty good C programmer and I pride myself on my
> debugging skills.
>
> I already checked that the sym53c416 has not changed between 2.2.15 and
> 2.2.16.
Shawn,
If you suspect sg you can go to:
http:/www.torque.net/sg
and regress that driver from sg version 2.1.37 (as
found in lk 2.2.16) to 2.1.36. See the table on that
page for a tarball.
Doug Gilbert
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