Bug#310668: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp: aha152x module hangs system when attempting to use scanner

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>]

On 12/04/2008 04:41:32 PM, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 01:43:23AM -0500, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp
> > Version: 2.6.8-13
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks the whole system
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an old HP ScanJet 6100C scanner.  Either the
> > lamp is dim, the mirrors or dirty, or the scanner
> > is broken.  It once worked with more or less the current
> > hardware configuration on a RedHat 7.2 system but
> > gradually took longer and longer to initiate a
> > scan.  (I've since removed a zip drive from the
> > scsi bus with the scanner attached and added
> > some drives to a different scsi bus on another
> > controller.)  When I switched to Debian and went
> > to the 3.6 kernel it seemed the module would not
> > take the combination ioport and irq jumper settings
> > I've configured, although I could have been
> > doing something wong.  So, the Adaptec card
> > has been unused for a while.  I've now tried to get
> > the scanner, and hence the Adaptec card, to work again
> > and it hangs my system.  After a delay the system does
> > not respond to mouse, keyboard, or ping.
>
> Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Uh, I _think_ I still have the hardware but it's not assembled.
To be honest, putting it back together is not a priority
this hot minute.  I'm sure I will someday want to clean my office,
which will either mean seeing about getting it working or throwing
it away.  I'm always loath to throw things away, so I may
get to this someday -- if I've still got a box with an ISA
bus to plug the card into.

For the record, I got an email from someone about a year
after having the problem who claimed that replacing
the lamp fixed the problem.

Karl <kop@meme.com>
Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
                 -- Robert A. Heinlein