[linux-help] Re: setup scsi scanner

[Benjamin Bunck <bbunck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does typing (as root)

sane-find-scanner

print anything useful?

Also, FWIW, there should be a manpage called "sane-scsi" that might be 
handy.

Ben



On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, bbales wrote:

> 
> I have a dual booted Athlon 800MHz box with Adaptec AVA2906 scsi board, a 
> scsi zip drive and scsi Microtek E3 scanner.  Running RH 7.2 and win98.  Both 
> scanner and zip work with win98.  The Zip drive (on the end of the scsi bus) 
> works fine with Linux, but I can't get the scanner recognized.
> 
> dmesg indicates it found a scanner, but doesn't recognize it.  RH7.2 comes 
> with sane and xsane.  There are several libsane-microtek files (.so, .a, .la, 
> etc).  But how do I bind sane-microtek to the scanner?  and what do I put in 
> microtek.conf?  I've spent days with the HOWTOs and google and I can't find 
> anything useful.
> 
> A portion of dmesg follows:
> 
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 
> PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:09.0 
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/0 
> (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs 
> (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Ext-50 YES) 
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded 
> scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.4/5.2.0 
>        <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> 
>   Vendor:           Model: Scanner           Rev: 1.80 
>   Type:   Scanner                            ANSI SCSI revision: 04 
>   Vendor: IOMEGA    Model: ZIP 100 PLUS      Rev: J.66 
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
> scsi : 0 hosts left. 
> 
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