[sane-devel] scanner and CD-R problem (ide-scsi)

[Carsten Neumann]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, c1sc0 at mac.com wrote:
> I'm trying to setup a new SCSI scanner on a system using an Adaptec 
> 2906 SCSI adapter. The system has a CD-RW drive connected via IDE-SCSI 
> on internal IDE bus 2. The CD-RW is recognized and works perfectly. The 
> Adaptec card is recognized in Harddrake and seems properly configured 
> as far as IRQ conflicts go, uses aic7xxx driver. When I look at 
> /proc/scsi/scsi the only device found is the one sitting on the 
> ide-scsi bus. Nothing is detected on the Adaptec bus. How can I 
> convince my system to scan the Adaptec bus?
> 
> Configuration:
> * Mandrake 9.0
> * Elite motherboard, Celeron 1700, 512 MB SDRAM, TNT2 VGA 32 MB, 
> Adaptec 2906
> * CD-R/CD-RW: Samsung 48x CD-Writer
> * Scanner: Vuego / Acer / Benq 610s
> 
> Any help would be appreciated. I've done a little research and I think 
> the problem is ide-scsi related. I'm coming from OSX so I'm a bit new 
> to the Linux way of handling this stuff - Cisco

Make sure the driver is installed, i.e. is shown in /proc/scsi.
Usually there are at least 3 dirs:

/proc/ide-scsi
/proc/sg
/proc/<your-card's-driver>

and 1 file

/proc/scsi

Also check if the scanner is powered on at boot and properly terminated.

You should be able to check that the SCSI devices are recognized without booting
by rmmod/isnmod the driver-module (if it's compiled as a module).

Cheers

	Carsten
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