Re: sane under aix

Rogan Dawes (rdawes@jhbelec.co.za)
Mon, 1 Dec 1997 07:45:45 +0200

Quoting David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org):
> >>>>> On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:20:11 MET, Bianchi Michele <mic@molly.sci.univr.it> said:
>
> Bianchi> i use an ibm rs6000 with aix 4.2, i compiled sucessfully
> Bianchi> sane 0.67, but i don't known how to make the device under
> Bianchi> /dev... i tried with smit, but.... nothing to do. could
> Bianchi> you help me?
>
> Sorry, SANE does not currently have generic scsi support for AIX.
> Rogan Dawes <rdawes@jhbelec.co.za> is/was working on this, but I have
> not heard from him in a while, so I'm unsure of what the status of the
> AIX scsi support is.
>
> --david
>

Well, I tried, but was not too successful. I was able to track down a
generic SCSI driver for AIX 4.x, but trying to implement the AIX SCSI
code turned out to be a bit more tricky than I bargained for. The first
time I tried it, I managed to get the operating system to hang up
completely, and do a dump to the hard drive. I became a bit worried
after that, because the machine in question, while not production as
such, was still quite important.

So, you can take my name of the list of maintainers/port attempters.

I am also changing jobs, so will not have access to the AIX machines for
much longer.

But keep up the good work guys. You are doing a fantastic job!

Rogan

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