Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-11 Thread Mark Seven Smith
THANK YOU! :-) Excellent advice (and under the circumstances, very helpful!) On Tuesday 11 December 2001 02:13 am, Robert Storey wrote: > Any decent quality scsi card will have 50 pins. It would > be very shortsighted to buy a 25-pin card just to save a > few bucks. There are plenty of cable ad

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-11 Thread Robert Storey
Any decent quality scsi card will have 50 pins. It would be very shortsighted to buy a 25-pin card just to save a few bucks. There are plenty of cable adaptors that will allow you to use a 25-pin device with a 50-pin card. - Robert Storey On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:39:10 -0800 Mark Seven Smith <[EMAI

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Seven Smith
On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:07 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > To minimize cost, you want to get a SCSI card with the > same connector as your scanner. For an HD50 > connector get the 2940. For the DB25 connector, get a > 2904. Are you sure you meant the 2904? I cannot find a reference an Ad

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Seven Smith
On Sunday 09 December 2001 03:52 pm, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > I have a HP scanjet 5p and I replaced the ISA triangle > card with a PCI Adaptec 2904. ... On Sunday 09 December 2001 01:07 pm, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > For an HD50 connector get the 2940. For the DB25 > connector, get a 2904.

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Jean-Marc V. Liotier
On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:57, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I am looking for useful, and CHEAP--I am on a fixed income, > and feeling very poor these days ;-) The Hewlett-Packard > website claims that the scanner I have needs a $150 dollar > card; in fact they generously point out the exact card they

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
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 m

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Mark Seven Smith
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, th

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 December 2001 12:34 pm, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I'm trying to get a scsi card (for an old HP ScanJet 4p > scanner), though eBay; and in trying to determine if a card > advertised will work with Linux, I went to the Debian > homepage, a

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-09 Thread Michael Wagner
On Saturday, 08. Dec. 2001 at 16:50:24, Brian P. Flaherty wrote: > Did you try the Linux hardware database? It is something like > lhd.datapower.com. Hello Brian, another good adress is the hardware data base at http://www.suse.com for a general overview. CU Michael -- Registred Linux-User

Re: scsi card compatibility under Debian

2001-12-08 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Did you try the Linux hardware database? It is something like lhd.datapower.com. Good luck. Brian