Subject: Re: Adaptec 1502 & scanning
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/22/1999 01:29:56
On 21.11.99, 22:42:21, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Hi!

> 
> Perhaps the 1502 could be mentioned in the supported hardware list,
> and the comment in the GENERIC kernel could be updated to add 150x and
> 1510?
> 
> Was anyone successful in scanning with such a controller? I have a
> Microtek E3 attached to it, and tried using pkgsrc/graphics/sane with
> /dev/ss0, but "scanimage -L" just hangs, doesn't even react to "kill
> -9". I deleted all other scanners from /usr/X11R6/etc/sane.d/dll.conf,
> still no luck.  Any hints?

On NetBSD, scanners work best with sane, when not using the scanner
specific ssX devices, but rather the raw scsi "unknown" devices ukX.

I have a 1502, but currently only use it with an EXABYTE tape drive,
but also had a scanner working fine on it.

> 
> Thanks,
>  Thomas
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Klausner - wiz@danbala.tuwien.ac.at
> WWW-homepage: http://fbma.tuwien.ac.at/~e9325658/Welcome.html

Bernd