From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 2 00:32:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19586 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:32:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA19581 for ; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:32:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id AAA03142; Mon, 2 Sep 1996 00:31:49 -0700 (PDT) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Anyone done any SCSI scanner support work? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 02 Sep 1996 09:08:32 +0200." <199609020708.JAA22302@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1996 00:31:48 -0700 Message-ID: <3140.841649508@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I personally prefer HPscan, followed Nate's opinion here. ;) Of > course, as the name suggests, it's for HP ScanJets only. However, > it's in the ports and ready to run. Thus my employer prefered to buy > a ScanJet, and thus took me any reason to hack Mustek support for > anything. :-) ScanJet = $995 at Fry's. Mustek = $389 at Costco. I think that's at least one compelling reason to try and make it work, for those of us in the market for a new scanner. :-) Let me put it another way - I think that if someone out there decided to make a really serious committment to trying to drive one of these little scanners, with the additional understanding that the driver be done in a reasonably elegant fashion and with some usermode support (at the very minimum, something to grab images in an established format like ppm or tiff would do), I think it would then be reasonable to assume that a new scanner of these dimensions might arrive in the post to expedite the process. On indefinate long-term loan, of course. :-) Jordan