New (old) scanner

[Paul Dickson]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 15:18:43 -0700, Robert N. Eaton wrote:

> This week-end I noticed Fry's had an add for a Umax, Astra 1220S scsi
> scanner at $49.95, with card and cable.  I contacted Sane at
> www.mostang.com and searched the info.  They state that this model is
> supported without qualification.
> 
> I bought the scanner and installed the card (no name or brand that I
> could discover, has only an external port, no facilities for internal
> cables) and it works fine in Win95.
> 
> I added scsi support to my kernel, and the boot log shows scsi - OK,
> instead of scsi - SKIP.
> 
> Sane is supposed to be installed in my distribution (Caldera Open Linux
> 2.4), and I even have an icon installed to start it.  However, sane
> doesn't seem to work and Linux doesn't seem to recognize that I have a
> scsi device installed.  What else do I have to do?
> 
> I did read somewhere in some documentation or other, that the scsi cards
> accompanying the Umax scanners don't always work in Linux.  Standard
> scsi cards at Fry's range from appr. $60 to $90, with High Speed and
> scsi II with all the bells and whistles (which I do _not_ need) go up to
> $400+. Should I buy a new card or does someone have lying about a scsi
> card known to work with Linux that I might borrow to test my system to
> see if the card is at fault.

You don't say whether the Linux Kernel found the SCSI devices or not.
Do a "dmesg|more" and see if the kernel found the SCSI card and the scanner.

If it didn't even look, do a lsmod to see if you have the scsi modules
installed (if you're using modules).

Below is what my kernel prints.  There is a SCSI card, CD-RW, and DSS3 DAT
drive.  This is 2.4.1, but the 2.2 series does this too.

	-Paul

Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/13/0 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 422 instructions downloaded 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.2.1/5.2.0 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel:        <Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter> 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 8.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel:   Vendor: YAMAHA    Model: CRW4416S          Rev: 1.0f 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: (scsi0:0:3:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel:   Vendor: HP        Model: C1537A            Rev: L708 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel:   Type:   Sequential-Access                  ANSI SCSI revision: 02 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max init. buffers 4, s/g segs 16. 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 
Mar  4 14:21:44 amber kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray