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From:Kevin Twyman
Date:23 Sep 2000 at 21:05:41
Subject:Re: Trouble with Scanners.

Hello Bob,

On 23-Sep-00, you wrote:

> It is a Microtek Scanmaster II belonging to a friend. I had it on
> loan fitted as part of a squirrelscsi chain, and used Betascan
> software, and it worked perfectly. I returned it to him this

I set up an Epson scanner with the same software and a squirrrel and
that too works perfectly.

> morning, used the same software, but as he is using it from the scsi
> connector on his Blizzard accelerator changed the config for
> Input/Output to scsi.device unit4 instead of squirrelscsi.device
> unit 4, and was told that scsi.device unit 4 could not be found. I
> thought that scsi.device was part of kickstart, but I am apparently
> using the wrong way to access this.

I believe the blizzard scsi has a different name. The scsi device that
comes with WB is actually an IDE controller!

> FYI his CD and an ext. harddrive also on this scsi chain all work
> ok. Could it be a termination problem?

Unlikely. Get the correct scsi.device name and all should be OK.

Regards,



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