[sane-devel] Acer 620S, not workkin

abel deuring a.deuring@satzbau-gmbh.de
Mon, 14 Jan 2002 11:16:33 +0100


Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:33:50PM +0100, Oliver Schwartz wrote:
> > Please also note that you may experience further problems if you're using the
> > ACARD SCSI controller that ships with the 620s. Several people reported that
> > they couldn't get their scanner to work with the ACARD card but had no
> > problems once they used a different SCSI controller with better Linux support
> > (e.g. NCR/Symbios).
> >
> > On the other hand, I also got one report from a Mandrake user that got his
> > scanner to work with the ACARD controller and kernel 2.4.16.
> 
> Uhh, the "famous" Acard. The is some info about this at
> http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/docu.html#SCSI . I don't know if it's
> still valid with newer kernels, however.

If you mean the weird data length limit for the INQUIRY command: that is
removed in newer kernels.

Abel