On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, Ian Collier wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 09:32:00AM +0000, Declan Moriarty wrote:
> > > Hey, I have a SCSI scanner and I doubt I'll ever be able to escape the
> > > curse of Win95 with that.
>
> > You would with SuSE. Check out SANE.
>
> Nope - SANE drivers can only be written if the manufacturer will release the
> programming documentation. This seems unlikely for my scanner.
If your scanner will work on a normal SCSI interface and doesn't need
a proprietary one, apparently it should work. Sane supports HP, & most Umax
scanners, although Mustek ones are not so well covered yet. Try
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
with the thing attached, and if you get a prompt , the system can see it. You
should be in business. You do have to fart around with kernels & config files
of course :-(
> For parallel scanners I would have thought you needed the specs of the
> parallel->SCSI interface too; but it may be that some friendly manufacturers
> have published their specs. It all depends on which scanner you have.
>
Yeah, but I'll give it a try and pull the plug if I see smoke ;-)
> > Are you anywhere near Ireland? Then when you give up with SCSI, and I
> > give up with IDE, we could swap;-)
>
> Is Oxford near Ireland? (-:
>
> imc
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Regards,
Declan Moriarty
