On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 12:57, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > First of all, I am stunned to find a site like > http://lhd.datapower.com; so, I thank you very much! :-) > > Now, I also have the /usr/src/linux-2.4/drivers/scsi > directory on my system, because I recently was diligently > re-compiling my kernel for the first time (it worked! > Hooray! :-) > > Anyway, there are a lot of cards that are compatible; and I > was wondering, if anyone had some ideas on where to start: > are Adaptec cards a good way to go? It is fairly easy to > look up cards on eBay with the keywords "scsi adaptec"; > this way, I am not overwhelmed with selections. I will do > a lot of reading to find out which cards are better than > others, etc.; but any ideas would be appreciated.
The Adaptec 2940 is a mainstream SCSI card that you should be able to get for <$20. It works with Linux since a long long time ago. I have several of these and their derivatives (2940UW, 2940U2W, 29160). They all work great. To minimize cost, you want to get a SCSI card with the same connector as your scanner. This is probably either DB25 -- looks like a parallel port -- or HD50. Assuming that your scanner came with a cable, you want to get a SCSI card with the appropriate connector, so you don't need to spend anything on cable adapters. For an HD50 connector get the 2940. For the DB25 connector, get a 2904. Most adaptec PCI cards use the aic7xxx driver. -jwb
