# Re: nikon coolscan III not detected

From: John Wright (johnmw@netway.com)
Date: Tue Mar 28 2000 - 17:44:47 PST

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  Hi, Thanks for the suggestion, I realized that I have no idea how/where
  to do this. Can you point me to a README? I'm a Windows 'expert'
  (whatever that means!) converting...

  -John

  Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
  >
  > [John Wright]
  > > The hardware is detected during boot. I see both my SCSI zip and
  > > Nikon Coolscan detected. My Zip drive works fine in Linux. I'm using
  > > Mandrake 6.1. The SCSI card is an AIC7850; came with the scanner.
  >
  > Try to turn on debugging to see what is going on:
  >
  > % SANE_DEBUG_DLL=128 SANE_DEBUG_COOLSCAN=128 scanimage -L
  >
  > This should print all debug info available from the dll and the
  > coolscan backend.
  >
  > My initial guess is that the backend do not recognize the SCSI name
  > returned from the scanner. The next guess is problems finding the
  > SCSI device, but if this is running on Linux, it should work out of
  > the box. :-)
  >
  > The Gtk error is a result of xscanimage not finding any devices. If
  > anyone know why this error message gets printed when this happends,
  > and even better - know how to get rid of it, please send us patches.
  > It is very confusing for new users. :-)
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