[sane-devel] Parallel Port as SCSI [SOLVED]

[Get A. Long]

Dear allan,

To be sure, I had told them that I got the help from some clever guys on the 
Internet (that's why I used the Winky ;) . No, I didn't pretend I did it on 
my own and never would have. You have to remember that for most people, just 
_finding_ a place to get help with troubling hardware makes you a 'guru'. 
Really!

Again, thank you all for your time and advice!


>From: "m. allan noah" <anoah at pfeiffer.edu>
>To: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Parallel Port as SCSI [SOLVED]
>Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 20:57:09 -0400 (EDT)
>
>no problem. you want them to think you are really a guru- do a google 
>search for 'scsi-add-single-device'. when you have mastered that trick, you 
>will be able to activate the scanner in only two steps, if it was turned 
>off at the time the pc was booted.
>
>btw- we did not write kooka, the kde folks did that. they might like to 
>hear from you.
>
>allan
>
>On Sat, 27 May 2006, Get A. Long wrote:
>
>>Wow! It work like a charm, and Kooka is a wonderfully intuitive 
>>application!
>>
>>The four steps suggested by Allan made it! I had in fact unplugged the 
>>terminator and wouldn't have thought of it otherwise.
>>
>>Anyhow, my family thinks I'm a great guru now! ;)
>>
>>Thanks all for the kind help!!!
>>
>>Thanks!
>>
>>
>>>From: "m. allan noah" <anoah at pfeiffer.edu>
>>>To: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>>>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Parallel Port as SCSI
>>>Date: Sat, 27 May 2006 09:54:51 -0400 (EDT)
>>>
>>>On Sat, 27 May 2006, Get A. Long wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi all,
>>>>
>>>>Thank you all for your helpful comments!
>>>>
>>>>I went out and bought a PCI-SCSI card (Adaptec AHA-2904) + a noname 
>>>>optical mouse + a set of El Cheapo SoundBlaster speakers + an Animatrix 
>>>>DVD . All for 16$. So, I feel it was worth the 400 yd walk. :)
>>>>
>>>>The system recognizes the Adaptec card, but still no luck with the 
>>>>scanner... :(
>>>>
>>>>Any tricks up the sleeve?
>>>>
>>>
>>>1. rmmod aic7xxx
>>>
>>>2. plug in and turn on the scanner. make sure it has a terminator on the 
>>>second plug (if it has a second plug)
>>>
>>>3. modprobe aic7xxx
>>>
>>>4. cat /proc/scsi/scsi and look for scanner
>>>
>>>if you dont see the scanner listed in that file, then dont even bother 
>>>with sane, you still have some sort of other error to fix first, bad 
>>>cable, bad card, etc. dmesg output might help.
>>>
>>>be aware that some scsi cards have internal and external ports, but only 
>>>one of them can be used at a time. check the card for a jumper or check 
>>>the cards bios (if it has one) for an option that controls this.
>>>
>>>if the card only has an external port, it should work, check cables and 
>>>termination.
>>>
>>>allan
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