Addressing a SCSI film-scanner - long, sorry.

[Paul Howarth]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 March 2006 08:31, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 22:38 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 07 March 2006 22:18, Paul Howarth wrote:ecognised.
>>>
>>>
>>>>You'll probably need to load a driver for the SCSI card before any of
>>>>the devices attached to it will work.
>>>>
>>>>Try:
>>>># modprobe tmscsim
>>>>
>>>>and see if that helps.
>>>
>>>Well, the command was accepted.  Should I add that into modprobe.conf?
>>
>>See if it detected your hardware first. Look in /var/log/messages for
>>the time that you inserted the module and see if anything relevant
>>appears.
>>
> 
> There is absolutely nothing there for that time.

Not a good sign. You could try "rmmod tmscsim" and then do the modprobe 
again just to check.

>>You might also try "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" and see what appears.
>>
> 
> No attached devices.

Again, not a good sign,

>>If that shows your scanner, then you've got the right module. Add:
>>
>>alias scsi_hostadapter tmscsim
>>
>>to /etc/modprobe.conf
>>
> 
> tmscsim is the scsi adapter driver, not the scanner itself, and 
> system-config-control Hardware Browser does see the adapter (and lists the 
> driver as tmscsim.

Uf it was the right SCSI driver (I'm not convinced about that), you 
*might* need to also load the "sg" (SCSI Generic) module before the 
Hardware Browser could see an attached scanner. You'd certainly need the 
sg module to use the scanner with SANE. However, the empty 
/proc/scsi/scsi suggests to me that the tmscsim module is not the one 
you need for your card.

> I got further than this three years ago when I tried to run the scanner under 
> Mandrake, so I know that it's possible to get it recognised.  I failed to 
> install the driver patch then, and it froze the system, but at least it tried 
> to work.  I only mention this to indicate that it isn't an incompatible piece 
> of equipment.

Three years ago you might have been using a different driver.

There are some scanner-related hints at 
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc390/problems.html which might be 
appropriate for you.

> Is there any relevance at all in the fact that all my FC4 boxes show messages 
> entries about automount being unable to find .directory?

Dunno.

Paul.