[blaiserulez]

Hello,

I try to setup my old scanner (using the factory documentation) but I have problems...
This is an o2 with irix 6.5.22

As root I had to create a /dev/scanner folder and a link to the /dev/scsi/sc2d1l0 item (this represent my scanner on the scsi controller2):
ln -s /dev/scsi/sc2d1l0 /dev/scanner

after that I had to do a chmod 666 /dev/scanner (after this the /dev/scanner folder has the rw-/rw-/rw- permission)

The link is created (I see it with italic letters on the desktop) it is a 17Bytes file (link) permissions: rwx/r-x/r-x

The original item in /dev/scsi/ is 0Bytes long and had the permissions rw-/---/--- as the other scsi items.

Logged as root everythig is fine.

But when I log in with my user account, I see nothing in the /dev/scanner folder (nor the scanner software, so it doesn't see the scanner).
What do I wrong?

UPDATE: i don't know why, but after I set execute permissions for everyone on the /dev/scanner/sc2d1l0 the file (link) appeared in the user account.
I can only see 0Byte long files in the /dev/scsi folder is it normal?
Now when I start the scanning software I get the following error messages:
scan: execution of inquiry_standard command failed (status unknown)
scan: unable to inquiry scanner
It seems the software cannot communicate with the scanner with the scsi inquiry command.
The scanner is properly connected, the scsi chain is terminated, the scanner is visible in hinv.
Something with this link is not correct.
Is there any way to communicate with a scsi scanner via command line, e.g. manually check a status like ping in networking?