your adaptec card is most certainly not a mac. they are extremely finiky about cabling issues. get a terminator.
allan On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Ted Parks wrote: > Yes, I did reboot after changing the scanner's id. > > I don't have a SCSI terminator on the other connector coming out of the 4C. > How important is a terminator? From my Mac days, I think I remember using > unterminated SCSI devices without any problem. > > Thanks, > Ted > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeff Hubbs" <[email protected]> > To: "Ted Parks" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [sane-devel] ScanJet 4C > Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 21:06:22 -0500 > >> >> Did you reboot or at least rmmod/modprobe your scsi card beore changing >> the scanner's scsi id? >> >> >> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 07:04 +0800, Ted Parks wrote: >>> Checking the place in the SCSI chain indicated on the small dial >>> on my ScanJet 4C, I discovered the scanner was set on 7. I >>> changed it to 0 and 1, but Sane still cannot find the scanner. >>> >>> My continuing questions: >>> 1) What should the SCSI setting be for the ScanJet? 0? It is the >>> only device I have connected to the SCSI port. As Martin >>> suggested, changing the setting from 7 cleared up the repetitions >>> in dmesg, where the machine found the scanner 7 times! But Sane >>> still does not see the ScanJet. >>> >>> 2) Dmesg still has two entries associated with the scanner: >>> >>> First: >>> >>> SCSI subsystem initialized >>> PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:10.0 >>> PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:07.2 >>> scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36 >>> <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter> >>> aic7870: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs >>> >>> Vendor: HP Model: C2520A Rev: 3503 >>> Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >>> Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 3 >>> >>> Then: >>> >>> Vendor: HP Model: C2520A Rev: 3503 >>> Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 >>> Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 3 >>> >>> This seems to me, perhaps because of my inexperience with SCSI, >>> that FedoraCore is attaching the scanner in two places. Why is >>> sg0 found at scsi0 in the first entry, then at scsi1 in the >>> second? If this is an error, how do I correct it? >>> >>> 3) Finally, to provide a fuller account of my problem, the output >>> from sane-find-scanner follows. Is it normal for a usb scanner to >>> appear, even though none is attached? >>> >>> [root@localhost tparks]# sane-find-scanner >>> >>> # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, >>> make sure that >>> # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. >>> >>> found USB scanner (vendor=0x049f, product=0x505a) at libusb:001:002 >>> # Your USB scanner was (probably) detected. It may or may not >>> be supported by >>> # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. >>> >>> # Scanners connected to the parallel port or other proprietary >>> ports can't be >>> # detected by this program. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ted Parks >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Martin Collins" <[email protected]> >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] ScanJet 4C >>> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 04:34:16 +0100 >>> >>>>> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:41:42 +0800 >>>> "Ted Parks" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 3 >>>> ... >>>>> Attached scsi generic sg6 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0, type 3 >>>>> >>>>> But, when I run sane-find-scanner, sane reports that there are no >>>>> SCSI scanners attached, instead finding a USB scanner that does not >>>>> exist. I created a symbolic link between /dev/scanner and > > >>> /dev/sg0. What am I doing wrong? >>>>> The scanner should only be found once not seven times. Have you set >>>> the ID on the scanner and terminated the chain properly? >>>>> Martin >>>>> -- >>>> sane-devel mailing list: [email protected] >>>> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >>>> Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" >>>> to [email protected] >>> >>> -- ______________________________________________ >>> Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This >>> allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. >>> >>> Powered by Outblaze >>> > > -- "so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera
