[sane-devel] scsi scanner on usb port?

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 12:04:46AM +0200, abel deuring wrote:
> You would need a sort of a USB <-> SCSI adapter on the scanner side, 
> which is supported by a driver of the Linux kernel. This driver would 
> have to register the "USB-tunnel-connected" SCSI scanner in the Linux 
> SCSI system and it would have to handle the communication betwwen the 
> Linux box and the scanner. In order to do that, it would have to know, 
> how the USB/SCSI converter works. There seem to exist two such drivers 
> -- but I believe that these are special drivers for Microtek resp. HP 
> scanners.

I think these drivers are just for normal USB scanners that happen to
use a SCSI-over-USB protocoll. This could be done in userspace also
(done in the avision backend some days before).

I don't know if such thing exist but wouldn't a general SCSI
controller work that has an usb connector instead being a PCI card?

Bye,
  Henning