[sane-devel] sane-find-scanner detects smartcard reader as scanner

[m. allan noah]

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Johannes Meixner wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> On Aug 8 08:04 m. allan noah wrote (shortened):
>> unlike scsi, there is no usb class for scanners
>
> I thought there is even no SCSI class for scanners.
> At least my SCSI scanner HP ScanJet 6200C shows up as "Processor":
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> # lsscsi -c
> ...
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Target: 04 Lun: 00
>  Vendor: HP       Model: C6270A           Rev: 3846
>  Type:   Processor                        ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Kind Regards
> Johannes Meixner

there is a scanner class (6, iirc). it is defined in section 15 of the 
scsi2 spec. hp is just stupid :)

allan

>

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