Re: ACARD scsi w/ 620S weirdness

Alexey Zilber (AZilber@mail.batesww.com)
Wed, 08 Sep 1999 11:24:39 -0400

While this does sound logical, in the scanner documentation, it shows the scanner being connected to the supplied ACARD without a terminator. I've tried it with a terminator as well, but since I don't have a 25pin terminator I had to connect another 25pin self terminated device to it (Nomai drive). The sparc refuses to boot either way...

>>> Tom Martone <tom@martoneconsulting.com> 9/7/99 8:08:51 PM >>>
Alexey Zilber wrote:
>
> All,
>
> I've been using the Acer 620S scsi scanner w/ a scsi card
> that came with it, the ACARD scsi card.
> I've tried hooking up this scanner to the back of my Sparc 10
> (to run SANE). But the Sparc refuses to boot with the scanner
> attached. I've yet to hook it up my Tekram scsi card to test
> out under Linux.
> I'm wondering if anyone knows any scsi specifics about this scanner.
> Does it have automatic termination? I'm having trouble getting a
> 25pin scsi terminator.
Just guessing, but I think that the terminator is a necessity.
I had a similar experience with a UMAX 2400S on a SparcStation 20.
Without the terminator I was getting really scary disk parity
errors on bootup. Adding the terminator restored normal working
order. You can try the probe-scsi and probe-scsi-all commands
at the boot prompt and see if the scanner is seen. And make sure
you're using an unused scsi id.

Tom Martone

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