Description of Problem: I have an Adaptec 2906 (AHA-7850) scsi card with a UMAX 2200 scanner attached, but not always turned on. When it is powered on kudzu seems to have no trouble seeing it and continuing the boot process. If it is not turned on, kudzu usually hangs when checking for new hardware. Reseting the machine gets past this even with the scanner still turned off. If the scanner is on and the boot succeeds that scanner works just fine. Have no recollection if turning on the scanner after a successfull boot will get it recognized and be usable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.99.23 How Reproducible: majority of the time Steps to Reproduce: 1. With machine and scanner off 2. Turn on machine and allow to boot 3. Checking for new hardware message; hangs Actual Results: Machine is locked up and requires hard reset. Expected Results: Pops up window saying hardware configuration has changed and asks what to do. Additional Information: When I do get the pop-up window about the scanner no longer being found, I try selecting to do nothing, leave the scanner configured. This seems to have no affect on future boots and kudzu hanging.
Does kudzu hang, or does the whole machine hang?
It could be either one, but since it is in the boot process where kudzu runs and has not gotten far enough to be able to switch to a virtual console I can't check if other tasks are possible. So the only way out is to do a hard reset.
Well, if it's a *hard* reset, that implies that something bad is happenening when it's loading the scsi controller/reading the scsi bus, which very well can be a driver issue.
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