[sane-devel] UMAX PowerLook 2100XL w/Adaptec 2940?

[Dr.-Ing. Dieter Jurzitza]

Hello David,
I am using a SCSI - scanner since decades. 
1.) I have an udev - rule residing in /etc/udev/rules.d (may depend on your 
linux distribution) called

6ß-scanner.rule

with the following content:
KERNEL=="sg[0-9]*", IMPORT{program}="/bin/sh -c '/usr/sbin/hwinfo --scanner --
only $env{DEVNAME} | sed -n s/Device\ File:/SCANNERDEV=/p'"
SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_generic", ENV{SCANNERDEV}=="?*", SYMLINK+="scanner"

(entire text in one line, "--" and "only" should not be separated by a blank 
....)

You need to retrigger the udev rules after having put the file into place in 
order to generate the device file "scanner".

2.) rescan-scsi-bus.sh should show the scanner (however, there will be other 
devices shown like hard drives (also SATA), too):
OLD: Host: scsi6 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
      Vendor: HP       Model: C7670A           Rev: 3925
      Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02

(this is my HP scanner)

3.) there should be terminating resistors on the scanner end of the scsi - 
cable, otherwise you can run into all kind of trouble. That said, the harness 
for the scsi - bus needs to be terminated correctly on boht ends, the end of 
the controller is usually already equippted correctly so you only have to care 
for the device side.

4.) last but not least: root should be able to access the device independent 
of actual permissions - always.

Hope this helps

take care


Dieter


Am Freitag, 19. April 2019, 03:36:30 CEST schrieb David Melik:
> Lately on suggestion of someone here, for our UMAX PowerLook 2100XL, I
> bought an old Adaptec 2940.  Dmesg & lsmod show the aic7xxx driver
> loaded fine.  However, sane-find-scanner does not find anything.  If I
> recall correctly, most GNU/Linux distributions don't properly setup SCSI
> in /dev by linking one SCSI device there to /dev/scanner and giving both
> the right user and group.  How do I find which /dev device is the
> scanner and know what user and group or other settings it should be given?
> 
> --David


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