"Kenneth E. Harker" wrote:
>
> This will be the first thing I check.
> There aren't any jumpers that are labelled "termination on/off" or anything.
> In fact, I had to jumper the BIOS address as "disabled" in order to get
> the machine to boot with the card in it - I think it was trying to use the
> same address space as the IDE controller. When I got the card, I think it
> had been used with a boot disk and floppy drive. I'll research this some more.
>
> Would there be an easy way to put an out-board terminator onto that connector?
You can buy one, but you need a cable (at least 20 cm I think) between controller
and terminator. It is better if the termination is done on the controller!
>
>
>
> >
> > In the moment: pull the power connector to turn off the scanner.
>
> OK - I was wondering about that. Won't that cause problems with the SCSI
> bus?
>
You have to tell the scsi driver at first to remove the device,
take a look at the scsi programming howto, search for "remove-single-device".
>
>
> > It also may be a problem of the scsi driver of your scsi cards.
> > Lots of 1.x.x kernels had buggy scsi drivers. The 2.2.x kernel should be ok
> > for the most scsi cards, so the 2.3.x also should be ok. But when the scsi card is a
> > new product the driver may also be new and buggy.
>
> In this case, the Ultrastor 14F card and driver have both been around since
> about 1994, so I think it's a reasonbaly robust driver.
>
Don`t know. I never heard about the driver in conjunction with SANE.
Bye
Oliver
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