Thanks for the reply! Sounds promising.
It's a Astra 610S (actually it may be a 210S - it's the cheapest one money
can buy!).
I had a problem before with it not finding the scanner ( I have 4 other
devices on the card), but I subsequently found that my termination wasn't
correct.
I still may have a problem, though. NONE of my devices are wide. I have the
high-byte termination turned ON at the card, but how do I terminate it at the
"other" end? My scanner has a DB25 connector, so I'll be using a 68-pin/DB25
cable, which probably just drops the upper byte. Seems to me I heard that this
can cause problems with the ADC2940UW recognising devices - is this true?
Or does the upper byte not matter if you're not using it?
On 15-Feb-99 Kevin Z Grey wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> No, theres no Linux support for the crappy ISA scsi card that
> comes with Umax scanners. I'm assuming that you've got an Astra1220S
> since thats probably the most common Umax scanner being bought/used right
> now. I basicly hooked it up to my existing external scsi adapter and
> installed sane. It works wonderfully. Make sure its recognized in BIOS
> and in your scsi probe at startup (messages file) and you shouldn't have a
> problem. I of course had to buy an adapter cable because my scsi card
> doesn't have external scsi-2. Also if your box freezes on startup, then
> remove the terminator from the scanner. I guess that'll only happen if
> you have internal scsi devices on the same card... could be wrong though.
> Hope this helps.
>
> ~~Kev
>
> On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a UMAX SCSI Scanner that I want to hook to my Linux system (Redhat
>> 5.2 with self-compiled 2.0.33 kernel). None of the attempts I've tried have
>> worked easily. I'm sure I can get something to work - I'm wondering what's
>> the
>> "best bet" for me to concentrate my efforts on:
>> - I can try to use the proprietary SCSI adapter that came with the
>> scanner
>> - I can attach it to my existing Adaptec 2940UW card (will this work?)
>> - I can try to get my "spare" Adaptec 1542C card to work (IRQ problem?)
>> - I can buy another SCSI adapter and use it.
>>
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