From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 12:03:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA15538 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:03:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA15526 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA17804; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:23:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601111923.MAA17804@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner anybody? To: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM (Peter Wemm) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:23:30 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at Jan 11, 96 11:22:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I guess this is going to be a "You gotta be kidding me!" type question, > but does anybody know what would be involved in driving a SCSI scanner > (eg: something like an Epson GT-8500, HP Scanjet 3C, Sharp JX330 etc) There are drivers. The main limitation is that the SCSI controller in your machine must be able to operate in target mode for several SCSI scanners. This is why many of them come with their own custom AIC6360 based cards. 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. I believe the HP and one other SCSI scanner type are supported. Sorry, I've only used it with HP's. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.