Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 21:02:47 -0500 (EST) From: "matthew c. mead" <mmead@Glock.COM> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: terry@lambert.org, peter@jhome.DIALix.COM, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner anybody? Message-ID: <199601140202.VAA09754@Glock.COM> In-Reply-To: <199601132347.PAA26625@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 13, 96 03:47:46 pm
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Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > 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. > I meant residual lengths on reads... Peter corrected me. > Apparently some scanners don't care. > Of the supported cards, the only ones I know of that do the residual > reads correctly (which is a prerequisite for attach/detach in target > mode, I think, and the source of my confusion) is the Adaptec 1542B. > The 1542A and 1542C won't work. > I don't know about our other drivers. See the "SCSI IP" thread regarding > my request for "user interrogation of capability bits". Probably, each > driver and capability sets ought to be doc'ed on each release. Hmm. So does this mean that my AHA2940 will not work with an HP ScanJet IIcx? Thanks for the info... -matt -- Matthew C. Mead mmead@Glock.COM http://www.Glock.COM/~mmead/
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