From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 20:00:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA22842 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:00:28 -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 UAA22810 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:00:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA18956; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:37:02 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601120237.TAA18956@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner anybody? To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 19:37:01 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, peter@jhome.DIALix.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199601120229.VAA04817@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jan 11, 96 09:29:12 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. > > Your system host adapter doesn't have to operate in target mode. > > Target mode lets your system look like a peripheral to another > system so that the other host adapter can then address your system > as a target. I thought that read remainder was a target mode thing; you'd know, you did all the original scanner work, though. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.