Re: Newbie question - Acer Prisa 310s

From: Henning Meier-Geinitz (henningmg@gmx.de)
Date: Wed Apr 19 2000 - 11:51:42 PDT

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    Hi,

    [...]
    > In Windows, the SCSI card is identified as a DTC 3181. I
    > found some information about this card on the web, but no
    > Linux documentation. I've also read the dtc README in the
    > kernel sources.

    I don't know about your scanner but the Mustek scanners come with some DTC
    3181 variants, especially the 3181e, 3181l and 3181le. These cards are
    supported by the g_NCR5380 driver, so a
    "modprobe g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0x280 dtc_3181e=1" (set the address
    appropriately) may work with your card, too.

    > Logically, I'd think that sg.o and dtc.o would have to be
    > loaded, but with sg.o loaded, /proc/scsi/scsi says
    > no attached devices. Doing modprobe dtc (after doing
    > modprobe sg) fails with an init message "device or
    > resource busy."

    "device or resource busy" means "there was some problem with the card, but I
    don't know which exactly". In most cases it's just the wrong driver.

    > I've also seen mention of a program or shell script
    > called find-scanner. Is this program included in the
    > source download?

    Yes, it's in the tools/ directory. But you may just do a cat /proc/scsi/scsi
    for similar information. Both won't work without the right scsi driver,
    however.

    Ciao, Henning

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