primax: Thread: please comment...

Hello,

I posted this message a week ago on this list - and there was no response at 
all. Does that mean that there is no solution or is the traffic so low that 
it may take so long? 

Thanks a lot for any hint how I may get the scanne up and scanning
Michael

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Original Message:

I have a problem with my jewel 4800 scsi scanner. It was sold by Primax and 
produced from TECO as far as I know. The scanner is recognized but not 
detected .. I hope that some one has a hint for me how I get this scanner to 
work..

That is what find-scanner says:
find-scanner: found scanner "Primax Jewel 1.01" at device /dev/sg1
I have set the softlink and the rights

That is from  /proc:
# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM      Model: DCAS-34330       Rev: S65A
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Primax   Model: Jewel            Rev: 1.01
  Type:   Scanner                          ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor:    LG    Model: CD-ROM CRD-8320B Rev: 1.28
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
  Vendor: HP       Model: CD-Writer+ 8200  Rev: 1.0f
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02

That is from scanimage -L:
No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came
with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). -> Done, but no luck.

It seems that it scanner is not supported.... Bad luck? But maybe there is a 
work-a-round? Are there simmilare products which drivers I may can try?

Thanks a lot 
Michael :-)

On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 09:33:00PM +0200, Michael Hoeller wrote:
> I have a problem with my jewel 4800 scsi scanner. It was sold by Primax and 
> produced from TECO as far as I know. The scanner is recognized but not 
> detected .. I hope that some one has a hint for me how I get this scanner to 
> work..
it's just an FAQ ...
 
> That is what find-scanner says:
> find-scanner: found scanner "Primax Jewel 1.01" at device /dev/sg1
yes. it simply reads the information provided on the SCSI bus... this
does only mean that the device is connected and switched on and does
not neccessaryly imply that you can use it.

> That is from scanimage -L:
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came
> with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). -> Done, but no luck.
sure. scanimage needs a backend which supports this scanner to "identify"
it.
 
> It seems that it scanner is not supported.... Bad luck? But maybe there is a 
> work-a-round?
such work-a-rounds are often called drivers ;-))
> Are there simmilare products which drivers I may can try?
don't know ... maybe try the SCSI capable SANE backends ... with very much
luck you end up with a working scanner ... or just wasted time  

-- 
Christian Ordig
Germany