Might explain why you have no response.
Rogan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Huber [SMTP:hu@garfield.m.isar.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 1998 11:15 PM
> To: sane-devel@mostang.com
> Subject: Re: SANE and Sparc
>
>
> > Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:49:16 -0600
> > From: "D. Cameron Mauch" <CameronM@savvis.com>
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > To: sane-devel@mostang.com
> > Subject: SANE and Sparc
> >
> > Hello. SANE does not currently work with Sparc. I have spent a
> week working
> with many
> > different individuals on SANE with the SCG driver. It appears the
> SCG driver
> has some
> > problems. See the attached error output for more information. And
> the SG
> driver which
> > I just purchased does not seem to come with the sgdefs.h file needed
> by SANE
> to use it.
> > Any other ideas? I have already applied several patches, including
> the one to
> the file
> > include/sane/config.h.in to recognize the SCG and SG drivers. There
> were also
> two in the
> > sanei/sanei_scsi.c file (on lines 1392 and 1424).
> >
>
> This is not a problem of the sg drivers.
> They call the kernel function scsi_transport, which passes the SCSI
> control
> block down to the scsi interface and brings back the result.
> Evidently this is incompatible with some reserved or vendor-specific
> SCSI commands used by some scanners.
> HP scanners use none of them, umax do, but the command could be
> removed
> without any effect, but for microtek I did not succeed in getting rid
> of
> it.
> I sent the attached mail to the microtek backend developer, but got no
>
> response until now.
> I will contact sun if there is a solution. I don't know how to run
> microtek
> scanners witout a modification in either the backend or the kernel
> code
>
> --martin << File: microtek.mail >>
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