Re: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Umax_+_Tekram_doesn=B4t_work?=

Thomas Haupt (thoh@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 08:37:13 +0100 (MET)

On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Thomas Haupt wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My Umax Astra 1200S works since 6 months with its own SCSI card, but it
> works bad and slowly under Linux. Now I got a Tekram DC 390(T) SCSI card.
> The card is my only one and the scanner is the only SCSI device. The card
> seems to work fine with the Tekram driver from 2.0.35, but the scanner is
> not recognized by SANE (īscanimage -Lī lists no devices). /proc/scsi/scsi
> shows this:
>
> ---------schnipp
> # cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
> Vendor: Model: F Rev:
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01
> ---------schnipp
>
> I only can see this after a completely cold start (power off). The old
> controller shows the full description with correct vendor. This is my
> configuration:
>
> /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf
> ---------schnipp
> net
> umax
> ---------schnipp
>
> /usr/local/etc/sane.d/umax.conf
> ---------schnipp
> scsi *
> scsi * * Scanner
> scsi UMAX
> scsi LinoHell Office
> /dev/scanner
> /dev/sga
> ---------schnipp
>
Yesterday I got sane-pre1.0 and tried to find the scanner with
find-scanner (as root), but it interprets it as a scsi-disk ->???

-------------schnipp
# /usr/local/bin/find-scanner -v
find-scanner: searching for scanners:
find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner...
find-scanner: found disk " " at device /dev/scanner
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg0...
find-scanner: found disk " " at device /dev/sg0
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg1...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg2...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg3...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg4...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg5...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg6...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg7...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg8...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg9...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sga...
find-scanner: found disk " " at device /dev/sga
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgb...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgc...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgd...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sge...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgf...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgg...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgh...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgi...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgj...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgk...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgl...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgm...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgn...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgo...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgp...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgq...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgr...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgs...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgt...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgu...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgv...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgw...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgx...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgy...
find-scanner: checking /dev/sgz...
find-scanner: done
-------------schnipp

Is it possible that I make any mistakes with the scsi-card? I havenīt any
experiences with scsi and I tried many options in the scsi-bios without
success. The Tekram is a Fast SCSI controller with 50 pin interface and
the scanner is a SCSI II device with 25 pins. I got a cheap SCSI II
adapter cable 25/50 to plug in, is this OK.

Regards,

Thomas

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