On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:10:47PM +0000, David G. Miller wrote:
> Philippe LeCavalier <support <at> plecavalier.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 <at>
> gmail.com> wrote:I remember I once went through the entire list of
> supported
> > scanners on the sane web site and searched for each one
> > on the office depot and staples web sites. Not a single
> > scanner in the supported list was actually sold in a
> > store you could walk into and buy one from .
> >
> > +1 I was doing some work which required scanning and went through that
> same. I eventually just asked a buddy who owns a retail store and he
> grabbed one out of his graveyard of parts and I've relied on it ever
> since. People don't really buy standalone scanners anymore.
> >
> >
> Snicker. Using:
>
> [dave@waste ~]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
> Vendor: HP Model: C5110A Rev: 3638
> Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> Got it at what was for all intents and purposes a yard sale about 10 years
> ago for $10. Still works great using Xsane. Kind of goofy to still
> populate a box with an Adaptec SCSI adapter just so I can hang a scanner
> off of it.
True.
[completely OT]
I was doing that until this past winter, an old SCSI scananer I was given
some years ago that only goes to 300 DPI (though that's plenty for most
purposes). Had a special computer I used only for that (since there
wasn't room for the scanner near my main PC), with an old/free SCSI card.
So, I needed to "borrow" the power supply out of it for some troubleshooting
on another box, and left it sitting there with the side panel off for a while
(a few weeks, due to my laziness), and when I went to put the PS back in it
it wouldn't boot up, kept giving weird BIOS/CMOS errors, and it wouldn't
let me reset. After a lot of head-banging, discovered some cat had thought
to "scent mark" it for me, and apparently urine isn't good for circuit
boards! Who'da thunk it? :) even after a thorough washing of the MB with
luke-warm water and thorough drying (in front of a fan for a week or two)
Couldn't see buying another whole motherboard just for that purpose, so
I found the Canon USB scanner (that I mentioned in an earlier mail) for
cheap, and it is small enuff to use at my main computer.
[/completely OT]
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