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Does eCS support scsi (pcmcia) for Tame?

Started by steve b, 2010.10.30, 07:44:52

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steve b

I can get my microtek scsi scanner to work on OS/2 on my T43, using SS2PCIC1 and aspirout. The installation on eCS uses IBMSS14, didn't install aspirout. I installed aspirout, tried the old microtek.conf file, probably a hundred permutations by now.

Hardware Manager shows the Cardbus driver loaded and pcmcia card shows with resources. But nothing happens when I scan. When I use sane-find-scanner it can't find the scanner. There was an item in the information for Tame that made me think that eCS only supports USB scanners.

Does anyone have experience or can enlighten me? Thanks, Steve

ivan

Steve,

Since eCS is OS/2 under the hood - as I understand it.  Try the setup you had working for OS/2, the installer may not have made the correct assumption and pcmcia can be a bit hit and miss with drivers.

ivan

Pete

Hi Steve

I seem to recall needing this line when using a Microtek scanner with it's own scsi card years ago:-

BASEDEV=OS2ASPI.DMD /ALL

I doubt eCS will have put that line in your config.sys - and you may want to check it was used in your previous installation.

Regards

Pete


steve b

There is something fundamentally different between eCS and OS/2 in how they handle Cardbus. OS/2(which works) uses SS2PCIC1.SYS. eCS won't load SS2PCIC1.SYS, chooses and loads IBM2SS14.SYS. Hardware manager looks ok, the same resources are used as OS/2 &SS2PCIC1, except the memory is different for the Cardbus, but Plug and Play for PCMCIA shows that it is Ok. AHA152x.add shows loaded, even when I use an old switch that is no longer supported and boot says it failed to load.When I use the aha152x.add that works with OS/2 on eCS, the system crashes.

Used 3 different versions of aspirout, cannot confirm that is loads with -v switch, but there is no message that is doesn't. The Tame documentation says that aspirout is necessary to make scsi scanners work, and I suspect some zig has been made by eCS that the current editions of aspirout still zag.

Unless any of this triggers an Aha! moment for someone, I think I will abandon.

I would just like confirmation that someone has a USB scanner working on eCS with Tame. Thanks All, Steve



steve b

Eureka! After posting about my success with JFS by not installing ACPI, I tried removing ACPI from my SSD dirve and my scanner worked!

steve b

OK, the issue is over IRQ9. ACPI uses IRQ9, not exclusively, so does AHA152x, but exclusively. 
I now remember from years ago that the scsi adapter only will run on IRQ9, can be reassigned but will not work. Passive/aggressive I guess:)

Anyway, I tried reserve.sys with no luck. FYI, Steve

melf

When you mention ACPI, I think that ACPI and cardbus does not work together. I'll remember this is mentioned in some ACPI readme. E.g. On an old laptop of mine, dependent on cardbus for wlan connection - this is not possible with ACPI. It seems to load and work, but doesn't.
/Mikael

RobertM

Is it the very first ADD driver in the config.sys file? IIRC, it should be. Also, I suspect it may be your particular AHA152x implementation that is locked to IRQ9. Others are set at 3 or other IRQs. There are Linux (driver) implementations that allow 9, 10, 11 and 12.

Problem is, I dont see any way to change the IRQ - the driver doesnt seem to have any such documented switch.

One suggestion I've seen that keeps popping up is to try older versions of the driver (the one in eCS is I think 10.148). You may wish to try something really ancient like the one here:
- http://www.os2bbs.com/download/drivers.html

Of course, I'd back up the current version first, so you have it in case you need to go back to it.

And finally, ensure you find every other adaptec driver in the config.sys (if there are any) that you aren't using and REM them out.

Best,
Rob



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steve b

For now, the simplest solution is to have a config.sys for when I use the scanner (rarely, but when i need it, I really need it) and a config.sys that works for ACPI.

As I mentioned somewhere, the only aha152x.add I can get to work is the one that came with eCS. The other one crashes the system (even though it works for OS/2 on the same machine).

Thanks all. Steve