Re: firewire scanner problems with 2.6.21.x kernels
Joseph E. Sacco wrote:
Thanks. The old firewire scsi driver (sbp2) driver has a couple of error
handling cases that still aren't in the new driver, I think it's a matter of
just moving those over. I'll try to take a look.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:52 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> Joseph E. Sacco wrote:
>> An Epson 2450 Perfection scanner with both USB and firewire connections
>> works well using either type of connection when running FC6 [2.6.20.4
>> kernel].
>>
>> When running fedora/rawhide [2.6.21.x kernel] the scanner works well
>> using the USB connection but has problems when using the firewire
>> connection.
>>
>> With firewire and the 2.6.21.x kernel:
>> * scanner is recognized
>> * scan starts and then hangs
>>
>> /var/log/messages indicate that connectivity/registration of the
>> firewire device has been lost:
>>
>> Apr 4 09:43:45 plantain kernel: fw_core: phy config: card 1, new root=ffc1,
gap_count=5
>> Apr 4 09:43:45 plantain kernel: fw_core: created new fw device fw2 (0 config
rom retries)
>> Apr 4 09:43:45 plantain kernel: fw_sbp2: logged in to sbp2 unit fw2.0 (0
retries)
>> Apr 4 09:43:45 plantain kernel: fw_sbp2: - management_agent_address:
0xfffff0010020
>> Apr 4 09:43:45 plantain kernel: fw_sbp2: - command_block_agent_address:
0xfffff0010100
>> Apr 4 09:43:46 plantain kernel: fw_sbp2: - status write address:
0x000100000000
>> Apr 4 09:43:46 plantain kernel: scsi2 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394
>> Apr 4 09:43:46 plantain kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Processor EPSON
GT-9700 1.05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
>> Apr 4 09:43:46 plantain kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 3
>> Apr 4 09:44:10 plantain kernel: ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
>> Apr 4 09:46:27 plantain kernel: fw_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
>> Apr 4 09:46:37 plantain kernel: fw_sbp2: sbp2_scsi_abort
>> Apr 4 09:46:37 plantain kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: scsi: Device offlined - not ready
after error recovery
>> Apr 4 09:46:38 plantain kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to offline device
>>
>>
>> Can anyone else verify this problem?
>>
>>
> please fill a bug f7 uses a new firewire stack that might still have
> bugs....
>> -Joseph
>>
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