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" <an...@pfeiffer.edu> >To: sane-devel@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 >-- >"so don't tell us it can't be done, putting down what you don't know. >money isn't our god, integrity will free our souls" - Max Cavalera > >-- >sane-devel mailing list: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org >http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel >Unsubscribe: Send mail with subject "unsubscribe your_password" > to sane-devel-requ...@lists.alioth.debian.org _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/
