Problem with SCSI device recognition (Ubuntu 14.10 v1.6.2)

[andy.keech]

hi,

i'm a linux noob (began using less than a year ago), not very technically knowledgable but i'm a quick study. i was hoping to use a legacy peice of hardware (a specialized scanner) with its propietary software on WINE. the programs install and run seemingly flawlessly, and now that i have a device, the OS sees the device correctly on a SCSI port (using lsscsi to view). i'm absolutely without a clue how to proceed forward and help the software running ontop of WINE handshake with the device, after which things should hopefully 'just work.' thank you for any help you can offer.

[oiaohm]

andy.keech bad news wine is not designed for hardware interfacing past basic com and parallel ports and some rare cases some USB devices with custom patched versions of wine.

Wine is intended to run unprivileged. So its really not meant to be used for hardware things ever.

So since what you are wanting todo is out side wine main objectives none of the code to connect Linux scsi to fake windows scsi exists.

andy.keech reality you have changed operating systems buy hardware that matches operating system.

Some of those legacy things turn out that someone somewhere has made native Linux solutions for them. Now If you are insanely lucky the device might work with reactos.org

There are many items like high speed network cards that don't work with Windows either.

[andy.keech]

yes, i've been spending time with the problem and i'm attempting to use a virtual box installation as a software passthrough for the unit (which is more conceptually in line with what i thought WINE was doing, which i understand a little more clearly now). i'm not on the hook for anything with the hardware, so in a sense initiating a project to have it run natively would be to expand the functionality of linux, being that this unit and others like it were designed and supported to run on legacy hardware which is getting very difficult to find and are isanely slow when working. hopefully i'll be able to get the VM approach to work.

regardless, thank you for the reply.