> >>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 19:24:53 -0400, Simon Piette <spiette@generation.net> said:
>
> Simon> Oliver Rauch wrote:
> >> I don`t know if SANE is tested on a big endian machine. May be
> >> there are problems too. I am not sure if the umax backend is
> >> tested on a big endian machine. But if the inquiry command
> >> returns with an error the problem is in the sanei/scsi or in the
> >> sg or scsi driver.
> >>
>
> Simon> This is what I am thinking. This is not the first time we
> Simon> (linuxppc users) have that kind of problem with little/big
> Simon> endian (eg. sound). I'll check with the Linux PowerPC team
> Simon> ...
>
> Note that SANE is reported to work fine on SPARC Solaris, which is
> big-endian.
>
> The only endian-issues that I'm aware of is that if you try to scan
> with >8 bits/channel across the net-backend and the endianness between
> the hosts differ, you'll lose. This is something that's easy to fix,
> but I haven't had the chance to implement it yet.
>
Ok, so it looks like a problem with the scsi-card or driver or the sg driver.
I don`t know if the umax backend is ever tested on a big endian machine,
but if the inquiry command returns with an error I don't think it is a problem
with the umax backend.
Bye
Oliver
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