diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 629dafd45..f6fe4c9c3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-01-24  Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
+
+	* backend/bh.c backend/coolscan.c: Minor conversion fixes (from
+	  Andrea Suatoni <a.suatoni@telefonica.net>).
+
 2003-01-24  Gerhard Jaeger <gerhard@gjaeger.de>
 	* doc/plustek/Plustek-USB-TODO.txt
 	  doc/plustek/Plustek-USB.txt
diff --git a/backend/bh.c b/backend/bh.c
index d50807292..cc3d05177 100644
--- a/backend/bh.c
+++ b/backend/bh.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ print_barcodetype (SANE_Int i)
 {
   return (i > 0 && i < NELEMS(barcode_search_bar_list)) ? 
     barcode_search_bar_list[i] : 
-    (const SANE_String) "unknown";
+    (SANE_String_Const) "unknown";
 }
 
 static SANE_String_Const
diff --git a/backend/coolscan.c b/backend/coolscan.c
index 567e6d10a..371b03f08 100644
--- a/backend/coolscan.c
+++ b/backend/coolscan.c
@@ -1700,7 +1700,7 @@ coolscan_get_inquiry_values (Coolscan_t * s)
 
   DBG (10, "get_inquiry_values\n");
 
-  inquiry_block = s->buffer;
+  inquiry_block = (char *) s->buffer;
   s->inquiry_len = 36;
 
   get_inquiry_vendor (inquiry_block, s->vendor);