Hi, In addition to Abel's comments:
On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 12:39:54PM -0700, Barton Bosch wrote: > In trying to track down the location of the scsi > device I looked in dmesg and found: > > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-RW 48X24 Rev: C.FZ > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 That's the SCSI simulation for IDE cd writers. At least in older Linux versions it was known to make trouble with real SCSI devices. Try to turn it off: rmmod idescsi (I think that's the name). > scsi1: <fdomain> No BIOS; using scsi id 7 > scsi1: <fdomain> TMC-36C70 (PCI bus) chip at 0x1030 irq 9 > > scsi1 : Future Domain 16-bit SCSI Driver Version 5.50 > Vendor: UMAX Model: Vista-S6E Rev: V1.6 > Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > scsi : 1 host left. I'd expect "2 hosts left" because the first one is idescsi and the second one the future domain host adapter? > Checking further, I found that /dev/scanner was a link to /dev/sgb, > and /dev/sgb was a link to /sg1 (not /dev/sg1). Are you sure? It could be a link to "sg1" (without the "/"). That means "the file sg1 in the same directory as the link itsself". > I tried changing > /dev/sgb into a symlink to /dev/sg1, but xsane still pops up a dialog > box with "xsane: no devices available". SANE should find the device even if /dev/scanner isn't there at all. > All the other /dev/sg* files had permissions of 660 but my original > /dev/sg1 had permissions of 600, which I changed to 660. That's ok. As root, sane-find-scanner should find the scanner despite the wrong permissions. > So at this point I am pretty stumped as to how to get sane/xsane to > recognize my scanner. Does anybody have any solutions? Any pointers > to relevant documentationt that I might have missed? Show us the output of "cat /proc/scsi/scsi". Bye, Henning
