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SubjectRe: 2.2.19 && ppa: total lockup. No problem with 2.2.17
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:52:28PM +0200, Juan wrote:

> Tim Waugh escribió:
> >
> > Could you build a kernel without SMP support and see if the problem
> > still happens?
> Without SMP support, the machine doesn't hang but I can't load the ppa
> module.
> See messages below.
[...]
> [root@localhost /root]# modprobe ppa
> ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.2.x)
> WARNING - no ppa compatible devices found.
> As of 31/Aug/1998 Iomega started shipping parallel
> port ZIP drives with a different interface which is
> supported by the imm (ZIP Plus) driver. If the
> cable is marked with "AutoDetect", this is what has
> happened.
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> /lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy

That's really strange. Does anyone else see this problem with ppa in
2.2.19? The only change should be to the _error_ path; it shouldn't
make things that once worked not work.

> > You could remove this line, just to see if it makes a difference (it
> > shouldn't, but it might).
> I will try this tomorrow.

I take it that it had no effect?

> > > messages on screen, doesn't it?
> >
> > Better is something like 'dmesg -n 8'.
> OK.

How about this? Did you see messages on the screen on the SMP kernel
with 'dmesg -n 8' set when you load ppa?

Tim.
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