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epson microfilm 500 scsi:

Is there any way to make this work under linux ? I'm using pclinuxos, it shows the machine in the device panel as sg2 and lists the machine , so Im guessing the kernel knows what it is, but I can't view it as a scanner or capture or input device . What catagory does microfilm machines fall under ? Is there a special viewer program for these ?

The only place on the internet this model of scanner appears to exist is this thread and others like it you posted. Could you post a more complete and intact model number?

You can find a list of supported epson scanners here.

Sorry, It's a Canon ms500, old 50 pin scsi. Don't have much info on it. I tried to contact canon they won't reply. The drivers for windows seem to be incomplete there are no inf files in the archive so I wrote asking if they could verify if its a corrupt archive. It lists compatibility for 95,98,nt but lists no drivers for them its all in a jumbled up mess of a file. So I tried it under linux, its seen as sg2, and dmesg says its spuriously trying to access hardware. The device panel in pclinuxos list's the machine name , interface and arch. I tried v4lin to see if I could capture it as a stream it won't, tried sane as a scanner it dosen't understand it. tried gimp for imaging, I'm not sure how microfilm is input as to its capture, seems like it should be a stream its just a pushed projection right ?

SANE, the usual linux program for managing scanners, doesn't appear to support it.

How old is this "ms500"?

The Canon Microfilm Scanner 500 appears to be a free-standing display unit to which you attach peripherals (like a printer).
Download Canon Microfilm Scanner 500 Instructions Manual

Please clarify what device you have and what service you expect the device to provide?

Can you post a link to the manual for your device?

It would be interesting to know where you found a 50-pin SCSI connector on a PC unless it happens to be a very old one with an Adaptec SCSI board or something similar? Are you sure that this port is not just a Centronics parallel printer port ?


Please post anything useful which might help identify this device.

Last but not least. What is the Project? Is purchasing other hardware an option? Are you trying to re-process old microfilm or what?



Hmm. Please post the output from this command at the Shell prompt (blotting anything confidential like machine names with X's):

Code:

uname -a