[ale] A use for Windows . . .

[Sean Kilpatrick]

On Thursday 31 October 2002 12:04 pm, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> What distribution and kernel are you running?  I have a SCSI scanner as
> well as a USB scanner.  With the right kernel modules it all works just
> great.  XSANE is a great tool as well.

I am using XSANE to drive my HP ScanJet 3C.  It is hooked to a stock
SCSI card. (originally came with an ISA bus proprietary SCSI card and
the new computer doesn't _have_ an ISA slot!).  Windows identified
the SCSI card on initial boot, loaded the correct driver, but couldn't
identify the scanner -- too old.  Once I told Windows what to look for,
it found the scanner, installed the correct driver, fixed things so
the scanner is reachable from graphics programs such as Photoshop.
With XSane, I still had to jump through hoops to get the scanner to
work, and I still have only a limited subset of features available.
I can't bitch too much, however, as HP doesn't even support this
model scanner any more -- it's too old! <grin>

Sean



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