# Re: Adaptec 1505A and UMAX 1200s

Steven R. Robertson (srobert@anv.net)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 23:20:57 -0800

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"Steven R. Robertson" wrote:
>
> I just bought a UMAX 1200s and an Adaptec 1505A controller. My kernel,
> recompiled with SCSI support, seems to recognize the card and scanner.
> But during bootup I get the Vendor name of the scanner as a series of
> nonstandard ascii characters including superscripts and accented
> characters.
> When I run find-scanner from tools it shows first nothing and then
> after I run scanimage -L (which reports pnm:0 and pnm:1 only) I run
> find-scanner again and it gives me another series of incomprehensible
> characters as the scanner name.
> Do I have a broken or misconfigured SCSI controller, scanner or both?
> Is there anything I can do to get scanimage to recognize the scanner
> name?

OK, here's an update on this. I finally got this thing working. Thank
you to all of the respondents. After trying several solutions and
getting no results I contacted Adaptec. Tech support there tried to help
me set up the card for Windows and it still wouldn't work. They sent me
a new card in return for the one I had. I still had problems but after
some changes in the BIOS and some hacking I finally was able to scan
some images with xscanimage. During bootup I see that the scanner is
recognized with the name UMAX.

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