Yeah,
I've been at it (Linux) for 5 and a half years and as soon as I think
I have things set up perfect I get bit. I did have my main machine
running
perfectly with all my aps including SANE, WINE and Dosemu and then one
of
my drives croaks. Fortunately it was a 2Gb drive used for run of the
mill
file storage and I was able to plug in a new drive and test out my BRU
backup software. It worked.
One thing one has to keep in mind is to get the kernel compiled
properly
for scsi support. I found with the scanners it takes scsi generic
support
to get the support for a scsi device. If one gets that correct, it's a
breeze. I now think, after setting up a variety of scsi devices, it is
easier to get a supported scsi device running than any other peripheral.
Best regards,
Kurt Savegnago
ksave2@theramp.net
abel deuring wrote:
>
> Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think the README file in the SANE distribution needs some updates. What do
> > you think about these points:
>
> Great idea. A suggestion: Some installation issues appear again and
> again on this mailing list, like device file permissions, or modules and
> module configuration under Linux. Some tips for error checking would
> also be useful, like understanding the output from "cat
> /proc/scsi/scsi". Similar tips for other OSes would of course also be
> useful.
>
> Much of this stuff is strictly speaking not an issue of Sane, but of
> general Linux configuration. But Sane is sort of an "entry point" to
> SCSI stuff for many users: A few days ago, I heard the story, that
> someone tried to use his scanner under Linux, and therefore installed
> Sane. When xscanimage did not list his scanner, he thought that he
> should get and install the most recent version of Sane. Of course, this
> did not help, because he did not knew that he must configure the SCSI
> adapter... May sound silly, but probably there will be more and more
> users who will have problems like this one, as Linux becomes more widely
> used.
>
> Abel
>
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