From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 8 17:27:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E856F1576F for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 17:27:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA12834 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:28:57 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 16:28:57 -0800 (AKDT) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net To: freebsd-questions Subject: scanning Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i hear that UMAX scanners are broken, they tie up the scsi bus while scanning. so i figure i'll get an HP. FBSD 2.2.8 Adaptec 2940UW anyway, i'm kind of new to scsi, and would like to know if i can avoid CAM and SANE all all the rest of it, and just compile a pt0 + scsi kernel, and do something like: image.tmp < /dev/pt0 | scanned-img-2-gif-converter > image.gif and cat image.gif | ocr-app > image.txt i am very short on time due to other projects, and don't have days or weeks to spend on dealing with a bunch of new software and utilities. ps. anyone know if document feeders affect things at the driver level? pps. i will have a IBM 4.5G, possibly a Zip100, and a 50 pin CD/RW and a CD. can i use 68 -> 50 and 68 -> 25 pin adapters? thanks ;) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message