[lug] SCSI card for Umax Astra 600s scanner

[John Karns]

On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Richard Hollos wrote:

> I'm wanting to get a Umax Astra 600s scanner to work under SuSE 9.2. 
> Following standard procedure, it doesn't work. After looking at the SANE 
> documentation and doing some googling, I've concluded the only way to do 
> it is to replace the original SCSI card with another one that is known 
> to work with this scanner. I know that someone else has gotten this 
> scanner to work using an Adaptec 2906 SCSI card. Does anyone know where 
> I could get one locally? If not, do you know of other SCSI's that might 
> also work?

I don't know if it's compatible with your scanner, but the Adaptec 1540/2 
series cards had 25-pin external connectors, were commonly used with 
scanners, and were rather ubiquitous at one time.  Shouldn't be too 
difficult to locate one, I would think.

-- 
John Karns