I've just gotta know why

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Tom Condon spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> I got my scanner to work.  It required some patience, but not much else.
> The SuSE 8.0 software did most of the work.  But I don't understand a
> couple of things.
>
> First, on boot up the BIOS recognized the two SCSI hard drives, the SCSI
> CD-RW and the SCSI Zip drive just fine (sca, scb, scc & scd), but it
> found 16 scanners (sg0-sg15), each with the right SCSI ID (1), but with
> LUNs 0-15.  That didn't happen on my old system (Gateway P5 120MHz with
> the same SCSI controller card in it).  But with my newer system (Abit
> VL6 MB, Celleron 600 MHz) it found all those scanners.
>
> Second, why did the SuSE software find 64 scanners?  When I type dmesg
> that is the number of them I find in the log.  Each with a unique
> identifier assigned.
>
> As long as I let all of this finding happen without cutting it short it
> was easy to select the first scanner in the list and install it.
>
> But I'd like to know *why*!

you have 'probe all LUNs' set to 'Y' in your kernel config? if so, turn it 
off. this will go away
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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
Admin: Linux StepByStep - http://www.linux-sxs.org
	and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org

I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
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