I recently purchased a Microtek Scanmaker E3 with an Adaptec AHA-2940 SCSI card, from a friend who used it successfully on his debian system. I haven't had such luck! The SCSI card wasn't discovered automatically. I learned that the 'aic7xxx' module was needed, so `modprobe aic7xxx` got me as far as the SCSI card, but no further. I still can't 'see' the scanner, or for that matter, any other device attached to the SCSI card. I have tried three different SCSI cards: AHA 2930U2, AHA-2940AU, and AHA-2940UW. I have tried three different SCSI cables. I have tried three different devices: The scanner, a SOny external CD-ROM, and an Exabyte external tape drive. Same result in all configurations: /proc/scsi/scsi shows only my Plextor CD-RW supported by ide-scsi (scsi0), and nothing behind scsi1, the Adaptec card. I tried rebuilding the initrd, including the AIC7xxx module so that it would be auto-loaded at boot. It still doesn't find any devices. I then re-arranged the order of modules, rebuilt the initrd, and rebooted. Now the aic7xxx device is scsi0, and ide-scsi is scsi1, and still only the plextor is detected! In addition to looking in /proc/scsi/scsi, `cdrecord --scanbus`, `sane-find-scanner`, and the 'disk utility' built-in to the Adaptec bios also show no devices attached! What am I missing here? -- Rick Green "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin