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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Sharp JX-300 scanner problems
Message-ID: <yhq]g2.xf@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 31 Dec 90 16:54:07 GMT
References: <2174@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <2804@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
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In comp.unix.aux, article <2804@redstar.cs.qmw.ac.uk>,
  liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts;) writes:
< In <2174@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> anthony@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Anthony 
< Dunstan) writes:
< 
< >We are having problems with the Sharp JX-300 scanner under A/UX 2.0,
< >the provided drivers work but don't do anything.
< 
<There is no SCSI Manager support in A/UX 2.0, so nothing that tries to drive 
<its own SCSI devices using a Mac driver is going to work at all: this gets rid 
<of all scanners, the SCSI-connected laserwriters, everything. 
< 
There isn't _yet_.

I'm currently working on one. The problem is that the A/UX SCSI handling is
sufficiently different (read: the MacOS SCSI manager does not correspond to
real-world SCSI very well) as to give everyone a big headache.

No, I don't know when it'll be ready. If somebody wants to help with testing,
send me some mail. (Having the 2.0 device driver development kit is a must
as there are some differences which require changes in the SCSI error
handling.) 

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