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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2001 21:42:09 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Thomas Quinot <thomas@cuivre.fr.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: SCSI-over-* hacks
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010321214209.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20010321113239.B37126@melusine.cuivre.fr.eu.org>

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On 21-Mar-01 Thomas Quinot wrote:
>  Um. The CAM tranport in question would not be a reimplementation of
>  the USB layer, of course. What I was mentioning was the possibility
>  of having a CAM transport that wraps a uscan device (just as there is
>  one already that wraps umass devices to make them appear as SCSI disks).

Well, SANE grok's SCSI and USB transports for the same underlying commands..

For example it uses the same code to talk to a parallel and USB HP ScanJet
5400C..

>  This would allow all USB scanners that use an SCSI command set to be
>  accessible through pass*, and thus be supported by any scanning software
>  that can use a SCSI scanner.

If scanners supported SCSI they'd be umass devices, generally they're not, you
attach uscanner to them and then feed them to SANE.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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