robert@nextoid.UUCP (Robert Patrick Thille) (06/19/91)
From: robert%nextoid@hub.ucsb.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Mac Scanner on a NeXT? Distribution: usa I recently (got it today) bought a La Cie scanner for the Macintosh to try to use with my NeXT. It's a 24bit color scanner with a SCSI port. I figured that I would possibly be able to use Scene's Scan... menu item to scan material, but that seems not to be the case. Symptoms: Upon boot, when messages about what SCSI devices are attached to the bus come up, no message about the scanner appear. See insert: nextoid mach: SCSI 53C90A Controller, Target 7, as sc0 at 0x2114000 nextoid mach: MAXTOR XT-4380S as sd0 at sc0 target 0 lun 0 nextoid mach: Disk Label: MyDisk nextoid mach: Disk Capacity 318MB, Device Block 512 bytes [ slight pause ] nextoid mach: Generic SCSI Device as sg0 at sc0 target 7 lun 7 There seems to be a pause as nextoid checks out the scanner, but there is no indication on the scanner, and nothing is printed on the console. Scene says that there is no scanner available, just as it does when I don't have the scanner plugged in. The scanner works with my brother's mac, and is at scsi id 2, and is internally terminated. I don't think that the scanner has termination problems with my NeXT, because I just had the internal maxtor (terminated) and the scanner (terminated) hooked up. I have an 040 cube (upgraded) and release 2.1 extended. If someone has had success with either the La Cie, or the Microtek scanners for Macintosh, I'd love to hear about it. Also, I'd be interested in seeing what sort of messages a HSD or other NeXT compatible scanner prints on the console (simplification) during boot. These messages can be seen in "/private/adm/messages". Also, I'd appreciate any info about possibly using the scsi_generic driver to check for the scanner's existence. Thanks very much. Please Email, News comes to me by mail and takes awhile... Robert Robert Thille NeXT Guru...... NeXTMail robert%nextoid@hub.ucsb.edu NeXT Guru?????? OK At All robert@nextoid.uucp (SLOW!) NeXT Guru!!!!!! E-Mail 14053 Foothill Rd. CA 93060 Well, maybe :-) Addresses