From 506d04e2fe392548466551c57b31943a98811ae2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Henning Geinitz Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 19:04:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added more information about NCR/Symbios 810 and Tekram DC315 controllers under Linux. Henning Meier-Geinitz --- doc/sane-scsi.man | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/sane-scsi.man b/doc/sane-scsi.man index 17a69fd0b..5da16ead9 100644 --- a/doc/sane-scsi.man +++ b/doc/sane-scsi.man @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.TH sane-scsi 5 "28 Mar 2002" +.TH sane-scsi 5 "13 Apr 2002" .IX sane-scsi .SH NAME sane-scsi - SCSI adapter tips for scanners @@ -256,9 +256,11 @@ therefore while a scan is in progress, the system becomes almost unusable. You may change the values of the USLEEP macros in drivers/scsi/g_NCR5380.c. Some documentation is in this file and NCR5380.c. .TP -NCR/Symbios 810 +NCR/Symbios 810 For some scanners it may be necssary to disable disconnect/reconnect. To -achieve this use the option ncr53c8xx="disc:n". +achieve this use the option ncr53c8xx="disc:n". Some people reported that +their scanner only worked with the 53c7,8xx driver, not the ncr53c8xx. Try +both if you have trouble. .br For Linux kernels before 2.0.33 it may be necessary to increase the SCSI timeout. The default timeout for the Linux kernels before 2.0.33 is 10 @@ -269,6 +271,11 @@ case, find the line ``if (np->latetime>10)'' in file ncr53c8xx.c (normally in directory /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi) and change the constant 10 to, say, 60 (one minute). Then rebuild the kernel/module and try again. .TP +Tekram DC315 +The driver can be downloaded from http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/. +For some older scanners it may be necessary to disable all the more advanced +features by using e.g. modprobe dc395x_trm dc395x_trm=7,5,1,32. +.TP Tekram DC390 Version 1.11 of the Tekram driver seems to work fine mostly, except that the scan does not terminate properly (it causes a SCSI timeout