Bug 770493

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In Fedora 17, it finds the Domex card, but still can't find the scsi scanner.

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It is stupid to close this with a non-applicable notice.  Just stop it!

Fedora 16 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2013-02-12. Fedora 16 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Remove the end-of-life notice.  Does not apply.

(In reply to comment #2)
> In Fedora 17, it finds the Domex card, but still can't find the scsi scanner.

Please provide /var/log/messages, showing the messages at the time the driver loads, and following. 

You might also do an rmmod of the driver, followed by a modprobe, after the system has finished booting up, to separate the driver load and bus scan process from other things that are going on at boot time. Provide those messages here as well. 

I assume that the other distros you mention work on this specific hardware set-up, so we can eliminate the possibility of hardware, cable, switch setting, etc., issues. Right?

Yes, exactly.  I have never changed this high-end scanner/card combo.  It has always worked just fine.  (The last distro was Arch, by the way.)

I will try the ideas real soon.

Thanks very much.

Okay, I have sorted out the latest messages log file and will attach it here.  But I do not know what the driver name is.

Created attachment 733313 [details]
message log info

(In reply to comment #2)
> In Fedora 17, it finds the Domex card, but still can't find the scsi scanner.

(In reply to comment #9)
> But I do not know what the driver name is.

So how do you know the Domex card was found? 

The first step is to determine whether the Domex card was discovered by the kernel, and the driver loaded. The second step will be to determine whether the Domex card discovered the scanner. The messages seem to indicate we are at the first step. 

A google search indicates that the only likely driver is dmx3191d.c 
"driver for the Domex DMX3191D SCSI card". This seems to be in the upstream kernel, but it is no longer in Fedora. This is presumably because it is very old, and no longer maintained. (I was hoping, based on your comment 2, that the driver is in Fedora, and that we might be able to make some progress determining why it would not configure the scanner.)

If you want to proceed further, 1) indicate the model number for your Domex card
2) provide the output of "lspci" from this machine 3) if you have easy access to a distro where the scanner is configured properly, please provide /var/log/messages from that boot-up, so we can compare.

I am attaching a picture of the hardware lister FYI.


Evidently bug 919874 shows that the driver had accidently been left out of the kernel but will now be put back in.

Anyway, thanks much for your help.

Created attachment 733407 [details]
OS sees card but not claimed

(In reply to comment #12)

> Evidently bug 919874 shows that the driver had accidently been left out of
> the kernel but will now be put back in.

That explains it. I'll close this BZ now. 

With some effort you could presumably build that driver for Fedora 16 and 17, in order to enable the HBA and scanner on those kernels.

I could go back to Arch or Mandriva without having to build the driver.

Instead, I've upgraded to 18, which brings with it another set of problems.  Hopefully, this one will be fixed with the promised update available any day now.

Thanks.