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Date:      Wed, 17 Nov 1999 02:40:05 +0100 (CET)
From:      Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Working SCSI scanner for FreeBSD [Answers and new questions]
Message-ID:  <199911170140.CAA06777@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>

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Charles Henri-Pierre wrote in list.freebsd-scsi:
 > [...]
 > It seem that nobody use new Epson scanners ?
 > Are the HP 6000 familly used by someone ? (someone rich :-)

I have an Epson GT8500 / ES1200C at home, connected to an
Adaptec 2940 together with 6 other devices (yes, the SCSI
bus is _full_).  Works like a charm.  I can even scan and
write a CD-R at the same time, however, I tend to try to
avoid this.  :-)

At the university's computing centre we have an HP ScanJet
6100C connected to the built-in SCSI adapter of a SUN Sparc-
Station-5.  OK, this is not FreeBSD, but Solaris.  But it's
also driven by SANE, so it should work with FreeBSD as well.

Anyway -- if you buy a SCSI scanner, don't buy a cheap one.
The cheap ones tend to have crippled SCSI interfaces, and
you end up having to use a separate SCSI adapter just for
the scanner.  I think at the SANE homepage there is a table
which lists the "good" and the "bad" ones.  ;-)

Regards
   Oliver

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                                         (Terry Pratchett)


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