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Re: HELP: RedHat 5.0 and AHA1502AE SCSI adapter for Microtek E6 scanner setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (The Root of All Evil)
Sat Feb 21 08:01:26 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 05:02:54 -0800 (PST)
From: The Root of All Evil <root@fullof.blarney.org>
To: Allen Wilkinson <aw@stratos.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, sane-devel@mostang.com,
redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980221074123.1186A-100000@teq.lerc.nasa.gov>
Cool, I didnt know there was scanner support for linux. Nice to know.
On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Allen Wilkinson wrote:
> I got a number of good replies from my origianl posting. So I would like
> to post my solution to the groups here.
>
> I am using a 200MHz Pentium with IDE drives. I added the Adaptec AHA1502AE
> SCSI card that came with my Microtek E6 scanner purchased in December
> 1997. My OS is RedHat Linux 5.0 with the 2.0.31 kernel. It was installed
> with default choices before getting the scanner and SCSI card. That
> installation had modular SCSI support compiled in.
>
> I prefer to start up the scanner infrequently after boot-up. Hence, I
> wrote 2 scripts that 1) enable SCSI card driver, and 2) starup scanner.
> See below:
>
> 1)
> #!/bin/bash
> # script to start up AHA1502AX SCSI card for scanner
>
> modprobe /lib/modules/2.0.31/scsi/aha152x.o aha152x=0x140,9
>
> 2)
> #!/bin/bash
> # script to start up SANE's xscanimage with Microtek E6 scanner
>
> xscanimage microtek:/dev/sga &
>
> All works well now, Allen
> --
> Address:
>
> Allen Wilkinson (phone) (216) 382-7613
> 1036 Pembrook Road (work) (216) 433-2075
> Cleveland Heights, OH 44121 USA (INTERNET) awr@stratos.net
>
>
>
