SCSI Scanner Setup

[Jason Brown]

The scanner should be detected as the scsi card is initialized/probed.  You
can "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" to see what scsi devices are currently detected. 
The scanners are usually /dev/sg_  (make sure that modules is installed, if
needed).  In most cases these dev's have root permissions set.  When you
start xscanimage or xsane, it will tell you what devices are present and if
you have linked a dev/sg_ to /dev/scanner (this is not needed).  You may
want to chmod the proper dev to allow users to access the scanner.

I did have problems with Mandrake 7.1 and the Umax 1220S.  This distro uses
sane 1.03, which has not worked, but other distros and Mandrake 7.0 which
use earlier versions of sane work fine.  I am currently using debian
(potato) and sane 1.02.

Jason Brown


On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Lucas Vogel wrote:
> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 19:25:09 -0700 
> To: "'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'"
> 	 <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> From: Lucas Vogel <lvogel@exponent.com>
> Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: SCSI Scanner Setup
> 
> I went out an returned my scanner for a UMax Astra 1200S. I have
> installed
> the card and set the scanner up(physically). How do I go about getting
> Linux
> to detect my SCSI card? Note that I do have some ide-scsi config set up
> in
> order to burn cd's with my cd burner, is that going to screw things up??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Furmanek, Greg [mailto:Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:34 PM
> To: 'plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us'
> Subject: RE: scanners
> 
> 
> I got a UMAX Astra 1220S (SCSI) working with Sane.
> 
> The Wolf
> 
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Lucas Vogel [mailto:lvogel@exponent.com]
> -> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 1:14 PM
> -> To: plug1
> -> Subject: scanners
> -> 
> -> 
> -> Has anyone successfully gotten a scanner to work? How about 
> -> a USB scanner? I
> -> am going to have to buy a USB PCI card for my computer in 
> -> order to plug mine
> -> in, but before I do I want to see what the success rate's 
> -> been. I've been
> -> harassing HP tech support(I bought a HP ScanJet 3300) about 
> -> it, and their
> -> first response was that Linux users build their own drivers, 
> -> so they're not
> -> much help either.
> -> 
> -> Thanks
> -> 
> -> 
> -> -------------------------------------------
> -> Lucas Vogel, Software Developer
> -> Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, Inc.
> -> lvogel@exponent.com
> -> (623)587-6739
> -> 
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