Re: SANE and UMAX scanner on MESH
Hello again,
So nobody uses a scanner with Debian/PPC, or any other SCSI generic device with
MESH? Maybe there were no replies to last Wednesday's post because nobody could
address my particular setup. But if someone could answer some basic questions,
I'd appreciate it very much:
* Does SCSI generic work at all on PPC, and on MESH?
* Should I be worried that "./MAKEDEV sg" in /dev created sg0 through sg16,
not sga, sgb, etc. as in the sane documentation?
* Should I be worried that the kernel says "mesh: target 6 aborted" when
booting, and doesn't list the scanner in /proc/scsi/scsi? (The scanner is
at ID 6, a zip drive at ID 5, and they both work under MacOS at these IDs.
Trouble is, MacOS crashes about every 5-10 minutes when using the scanner
and associated utilities, I can work around to make it crash about every 30
minutes but it's a pain.)
* Anyone with a scanner success story (on PPC)?
* Are there non-obvious things which must be done to enable sane to see the
scanner?
Thanks very much,
-Adam P.
(My old post...)
Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am having trouble getting my new UMAX Astra 1220S scanner recognized.
> It is at ID 6, with a zip drive at ID 5, on a StarMax 3000/160 (pmac
> 4400 clone). MacOS recognizes it and scans from it just fine- well, if
> you ignore the frequent crashes and required Adobe Deluxe shipped with
> the scanner but which needs a nonexistent serial number... which is why
> I'd like to do this in free software!
>
> So, I rebuilt the kernel with SCSI generic support, so I was able to
> `MAKEDEV sg' but it made /dev/sg0 through 16, not sga, sgb, etc.
> /proc/scsi/scsi is not showing the scanner, just the zip drive. Here's
> what is reported during the scsi init at boot time (from dmesg):
>
> scsi0 : MESH
> scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.13
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> mesh: target 6 aborted
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1
> GB]
> sda: Write Protect is off
>
> And there are no more related messages. Can Linux not detect a scanner
> on PPC, or perhaps, is there a problem with generic SCSI on MESH?
>
> Also, /usr/doc/sane/tools/find-scanner is missing! scanimage -L is
> there, but gives no reply, meaning no scanner is detected.
>
> Does anyone have a scanner working on MESH?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Adam "...the firmament sheweth His handywork" (Ps 19:1) ///
> ............................................................__ ///|
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