On Friday 10 March 2006 12:18, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 08 March 2006 13:03, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > I have had somewhat similar problems with a Umax 1200S SCSI scanner. It > > is supported by SANE, when it's detected by the SCSI driver. However, > > it is rarely detected. I found that cycling the power on the scanner > > prior to loading the SCSI module (Adaptec or BusLogic, in my case) seems > > to make things work until the scanner goes into power saving mode, or > > whatever turns off the light. After that, the scanner no longer appears > > to exist. In my case the scanner is not detected during the BIOS scan, > > unless I cycle the scanner's power prior to booting the computer. > > > > Hi, Bob. From what I've read, it's not unusual for scanners to be too slow > announcing themselves. You've nothing to lose by going through the steps > to get it recognised then inserting the sleep line into your start-up > scripts. The rescan script that I mentioned was very helpful too. > One other thing comes to mind. My scanner was shipped with an Adaptec SCSi card. It was fine as long as I only wanted to run the scanner alone with the software provided. It turned out that Adaptec make/made a number of cards that were non-standard. If they caused problems under windows I think it's highly likely that they wouldn't work properly with linux either. Unless you've actually had that scanner running with linux I'd beg borrow or steal a different card, and see if that helps. Anne
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