Re: MFS-6000CX (id MSF-06000CZ) and Future Domain

David Mosberger-Tang (davidm@azstarnet.com)
Sun, 4 May 1997 09:57:27 -0700

>>>>> On Sat, 3 May 1997 18:24:04 +0200 (MET DST), Andy Thaller <Andy.Thaller@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> said:

Andy> Everything is working just fine now. As I've mentioned before,
Andy> the mustek-driver complained about INQUIRY being not
Andy> supported. After fiddling around with the scsi-adapters,
Andy> kernel modules and all that stuff without significant
Andy> successes, I've took a look at the sane sources. From there
Andy> I've figured out that SANE_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED is returned by
Andy> sanei_scsi_cmd() if - and only if - neither of the
Andy> scsi-include-files (scsi.h scsi/sg.h sys/scsi.h sys/scsiio.h)
Andy> were found. adding the appropriate links in /usr/include fixed
Andy> the problem. I've already scanned some images and I'm really
Andy> fascinated :-)

Ouch...

Andy> I'd suggest to make configure print out a really _huge_
Andy> warning in case it can't find any of the scsi-include-files or
Andy> at least visibly disable mustek (and any other scsi-devices)
Andy> support. It was quite a pain till I've realized the problem's
Andy> nature.. ;-)

That's what used to happen (it refused to compile). But I think a
better solution still is to simply check for
/usr/src/linux/include/scsi/sg.h (in addition to checking for
/usr/include/scsi/sg.h). I have made this change and hope it will
cover the user's running older distributions.

--david

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