ableape wrote:
Using DEBIAN 3.1
I am having trouble figuring out how to add a film scanner. Using
deb/linux 3.1, I am installing SANE but it fails to find the scanner
device. This is being connected through an Adaptec scsi AHA2940UW which
is listed as compatible by Minolta. This device is ok, and I am running
the OS off a disk attached to the same SCSI device.
I think the problem is that however SANE views a scanner device, is
different than how Debian 3.1 sees it. I am hoping someone can either
tell me how to add this device in or point me to a resource that would
help me. Thanks.
What does your dmesg say, I have a Nikon Coolscan III, it gets detected
fine at startup, do you have the scanner on at startup?
Xsane sees it as /dev/sg0, unfortunately the scan quality is absolutely
awful, unusable in fact.
(Incidentally, Minolta does not support this device in XP, so the only
real use for these scanners will be in a linux environment. The
scanners themselves tend to be under utilized in their lifetime, so it
is reasonable that they will have
same with the coolscan, last supported oses are win98 and macos9, I got
into conversation with Nikon support but there is nothing they can do
about it, my iMac has no scsi port of course and I am not too keen to
have to install win98 just to run the scanner
a very long life. Likewise, people will be realizing that you can get
pretty good deals on older film cameras. Thus for us cheap skates, it
would be great to attach old film scanners to process our film from old
cameras on old PC's being kept alive under Linux.)
I couldn't get my Nikon FM repaired either, so I have bitten one bullet
and bought an Olympus C-60, which I am just getting used to and gived
very good quality pics, but still I paid a lot of money for the coolscan
and it has not had that much use...:(
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Bill
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