[NBLUG/talk] Scanner Setup

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Tue Mar 2 13:40:04 PST 2004


On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:42:36AM -0800, Ian Sutherland wrote:
} I have a ScanJet 6100c that uses a Symbios Logic 53C416 SCSI controller.
} How do I set it up to work on Red Hat 9 Linux? I am new to Linux.

Also I've found this script very useful:

http://www.marlow.dk/tech/src/rescan-scsi-bus.sh.txt

#!/bin/bash
# Skript to rescan SCSI bus, using the 
# scsi add-single-device mechanism
# (w) 98/03/19 Kurt Garloff <kurt at garloff.de> (c) GNU GPL
...

You can connect up the scanner after the machine boots and
it rescans the SCSI bus so you don't need to either reboot
or enter in some really cryptic commands.  It doesn't seem
to disrupt anything, even when it's a SCSI disk based
system.

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   E Frank Ball   frankb at efball.com



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