From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 13 15:47:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26631 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:47:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA26625 Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:47:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 15:47:46 -0800 (PST) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199601132347.PAA26625@freefall.freebsd.org> To: mmead@Glock.COM Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner anybody? Cc: terry@lambert.org, peter@jhome.DIALix.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > If you happen to have a good controller (as opposed to one that > > works for HD's, etc.), then you can implement the scanner software > > on top of it. > > Is the AHA2940 considered a "good controller?" I'm purchasing an HP > ScanJet IIcx in the next day or two, and have been pushing the author > of XVScan to port to FreeBSD RSN. Check out http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/ > for information on XVScan. I meant residual lengths on reads... Peter corrected me. Apparently some scanners don't care. Of the supported cards, the only ones I know of that do the residual reads correctly (which is a prerequisite for attach/detach in target mode, I think, and the source of my confusion) is the Adaptec 1542B. The 1542A and 1542C won't work. I don't know about our other drivers. See the "SCSI IP" thread regarding my request for "user interrogation of capability bits". Probably, each driver and capability sets ought to be doc'ed on each release. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.