On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Tom Condon wrote: > > I got my scanner to work. It required some patience, but not much else. > The SuSE 8.0 software did most of the work. But I don't understand a > couple of things. > > First, on boot up the BIOS recognized the two SCSI hard drives, the SCSI > CD-RW and the SCSI Zip drive just fine (sca, scb, scc & scd), but it > found 16 scanners (sg0-sg15), each with the right SCSI ID (1), but with > LUNs 0-15. That didn't happen on my old system (Gateway P5 120MHz with > the same SCSI controller card in it). But with my newer system (Abit > VL6 MB, Celleron 600 MHz) it found all those scanners. > > Second, why did the SuSE software find 64 scanners? When I type dmesg > that is the number of them I find in the log. Each with a unique > identifier assigned. > > As long as I let all of this finding happen without cutting it short it > was easy to select the first scanner in the list and install it. > > But I'd like to know *why*!
Normally, when you see the same device multiple times, its a termination problem (which could be as simple as reseating the cable, or as bad as faulty HW), or you have two devices using the same ID. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
