New adaptec 2940UW Pro/ microtek2

[Doug Ledford]

Ruben I Safir wrote:
> 
> Doug
> 
> Thanks for sending me feedback. There apears to be nothing wrong with
> the querry inspite of the fact that it reports no no no on the cables.
> I assume that's because the device is not being seen.

Well, the device *is* being seen, it just doesn't have a vendor string.  Since
that's all handled in the upper SCSI layers, and not in the aic7xxx driver, I
would think something else is most likely going on.

>  The bios of the
> card does display the scanner properly when the machine boots with the
> vender etc.  I have a termination adapter on the second SCSI port of the
> scanner, and I think it is covered by SANE, as I understand their
> documents.  Is  there nothing to set in lilo to try to fanagle this to
> be seen?  I'm going to bring another terminator in to test things out
> further.  No reset will be of no help?
> 
> Ruben
> 
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > I have a ADAPTEC 2940UW Pro working on a SuSe 53
> > platform and I'm trying to get the scanner to work.
> >
> > THe scanner is a scanmaker X6EL which I thought was
> > on the list of supported sane scanners.  I've
> > been banging my head on the wall trying to get it
> > to work
> >
> > cat /dev/scsi/scsi is showing
> >
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> >   Vendor:          Model: scanner 636EL    Rev: 1.40
> >   Type:   Scanner                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> >
> > but find-scanner comes up entirely blank.  It shhows
> > up in the SuSe YAST program - but it only has
> > microtek as a choice, and no microtek2
> >
> > As far as I can tell it is terminated and I'm using
> > sane1.0.1
> >
> > Any clues as to the problem.
> >
> > /usr/local/bin/scanimage --list-devices comes up completely blank as
> > well
> 
> No clue.  I don't have any scanners and since all the rest of the
> INQUIRY data
> looks correct, I have to assume the scanner you have simply doesn't
> return and
> VENDOR string in its data.

-- 
  Doug Ledford   <dledford at redhat.com>
   Opinions expressed are my own, but
      they should be everybody's.


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