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APPLICATION NOTE

Document ID : ALL1003

Document Title: SGI using second SCSI bus

Date Published: March 29, 1995

Problem:

Pixel!SCAN is not seeing the scanner on SCSI bus 1 on SGI machines.

Cause:

Pixel!SCAN works on SCSI bus 0 by default.

Solution:

Follow these procedures to use the second SCSI bus on SGI machines:

1) Become super-user.

2) rm /<device file>

<device file> is a name like /dev/scanJetIIc_5. A user can find the name of this device

after Setup is run. The file $PIXELFXDIR /scanner.ref references <device file>

3) mknod <device file> c 195 <minor number>

the <minor number> is 195 + the SCSI address setting on the scanner.

4) chmod 666 /dev/<device file>

Rev. 1.0 03/29/95

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