Two problems, possibly related: 1) In /dev there is an entry scanner@, which is flashing red. What does this mean? It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as far as I have got with it.
2) Problem 1 came to light when I was trying to sort out the problem of my cardreader (compact flash and smartmedia). Following the advice to a previous question, I typed modprobe usb-storage then mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cardreader This crashed spectacularly, needing a forced fsck to get it going again. It occurred to me that sda1 may be the filmscanner, so I tried to look at the directories in a shell. Under /dev/usb there is only lp0 - my printer, presumably. Under /dev/scsi there are 3 entries, host0, host1, host2. Each of these shows subdirectories bus0/targetx/lun0 (lun0 in every case). Host0 shows 'generic', host1 shows 'cd generic' and host2 shows 'disc generic'. Can someone please explain to me what is happening, and how I can check whether the cardreader is being recognised without risking another serious crash. TIA Anne
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