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Date:      Sat, 11 Jul 1998 18:36:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dburr@POBoxes.com (Donald Burr)
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: what the heck is going on with my scanner?
Message-ID:  <199807111636.SAA01143@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980711000808.dburr@POBoxes.com> from Donald Burr at "Jul 11, 98 00:08:08 am"

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As Donald Burr wrote...

> First, I'd like to say that, despite all the weirdo messages shown below,
> the scanner DOES WORK.  There's no problem with the scanner: all my scans
> come out perfect.  However, if at all possible, I would like to find out
> what the heck is going on here, because the messages are annoying and make
> dmesg worthless :)
> 
> Anyway, upon boot-up, the scanner probes really strangely:
> 
> -----
> ahc0:A:5: refuses synchronous negotiation. Using asynchronous transfers
> (ahc0:5:0): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk0(ahc0:5:0): Unknown
> (ahc0:5:1): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk1(ahc0:5:1): Unknown
> (ahc0:5:2): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk2(ahc0:5:2): Unknown
> (ahc0:5:3): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk3(ahc0:5:3): Unknown
> (ahc0:5:4): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk4(ahc0:5:4): Unknown
> (ahc0:5:5): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk5(ahc0:5:5): Unknown
> (ahc0:5:6): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk6(ahc0:5:6): Unknown
> (ahc0:5:7): "UMAX Astra 1200S V2.9" type 6 fixed SCSI 2
> uk7(ahc0:5:7): Unknown
> -----
> 
> Note the "refuses synchronous negotiation" and the fact that all LUN's are
> probed (afaik, this scanner does not use any LUN's).

This is called broken firmware. The device reacts to LUN !=0 even if
it has no LUNs != 0

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