From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 20:08:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA23492 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from Glock.COM (root@glock.com [198.82.228.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23444 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 20:07:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mmead@localhost) by Glock.COM (8.7.1/8.7.1) id XAA28027; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:05:43 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199601120405.XAA28027@Glock.COM> Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner anybody? To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 23:05:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: peter@jhome.DIALix.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199601111923.MAA17804@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Jan 11, 96 12:23:30 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 Terry Lambert wrote: > > 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. Is the AHA2940 considered a "good controller?" I'm purchasing an HP ScanJet IIcx in the next day or two, and have been pushing the author of XVScan to port to FreeBSD RSN. Check out http://www.tummy.com/xvscan/ for information on XVScan. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/