[rescue] Forget flying piggies.... how about a scanner on a sun?

Big Endian rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Sep 7 09:53:35 CDT 2001


>I have a chance to rescue a scsi scanner (HP scanjet IIp).
>Is there any way to hookup/run/drive such a critter on a sparc?
>I was thinking this little LX crate or maybe the ss5 or ss10 next
>to it might be able to run it IFF the requisite driving software
>were about.  Anyone doing anything like this?
>
>Any insights are appreciated....(I really don't wanna run a winblows
>box to do this unless I have to.....

It should work fine.  I've run MicroTek Scanmaker IIsps on my Indigo2 
for a while with SANE.  your scanjet is listed as a beta driver but 
then again so is my microtek and I had very few problems with it.
http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html



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