SCSI : "hot" plugging scanners ?

Andrew Millar andy-mail at priorityonline.net
Thu Aug 25 23:05:33 UTC 2005


I know this probably isn't very helpful, but, does the scanner actually 
use that much power?

I wouldn't have expected it to use much at all.

- Andy

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

>Hello, SCSI gurus...
>
>I have currently a SCSI scanner (Epson Snapscan 1236) attached to my
>computer, that I keep turned off most of the time as I don't use it
>often and am trying to save electricity in the best interest of both my
>Wallet and the Planet.
>
>However when I do need it, I can't just turn it on as it is not
>detected, requiring me to reboot the machine, not very elegant.
>So I was wondering, is there a way (some magical command line utility or
>something) to ask the SCSI controller (low end Adaptec 2904)  to re-scan
>the bus so it can find the scanner and hopefully Ubuntu will pick it up
>(create its device node ie) ?
>Or could hotplug do it maybe ? how ?
>
>
>Thanks for any help/info...
>
>
>Regards,
>
>
>--
>Vince
>
>
>  
>

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