Hello list, with updating to Suse 9.1 I got a lot of trouble with my scanner, a vernerable umax 1220 S, connected via the sym53c8xx module, which had worked absolutely flawlessly till then. The module wasn't loaded ast boottime, the scanner because of this not regonized. Module loading by hand lasted extremely long and unloading wasn't just impossible. The same procedure with additional parameters brought but little relief - the scanner remained dead. I talked about this problem and the problems I faced during the initial setup of Suse 9.1, when automatic installation didn't work, because Yast searched for a scsi-harddrive that didn't exist (the only client of the controller was the scanner), with Abel Deuring. He proposed to focus on the coldplug script and to switch it off for tresting. And that was it. There must be something considerably wrong in the realm of this script. So I would recommend to everyone who also faces the Suse9.1/sym53c8xx-problem and can afford to get on without USB-support to deactivate the startupscript /etc/init.d/rc5./S02coldplug till the folks at Suse have done it better.
Greetings Wolfram Heider