Matthew Dempsky wrote: > SCSI scanners are marked "obsolete" at least as of the latest SCSI > working drafts, and other than updates to keep in sync with other > kernel subsystem changes, ss(4) doesn't seem to have received any real > attention in about a decade. > >
I am a heavy scanner user and I think I used no less than a dozen of various USB scanners with OpenBSD. However last year, I stumbled upon an HP made SCSI scanner (I forgot the model). Since, I had an Sun Ultra 5 laying around I gave a shot. I discovered very quickly by reading sane-backends man pages that support for several of HP SCSI model is just a cheap hack which works only on Linux (driver expect device names, driver names to be Linux). I gave up quickly since those things are worthless anyway. You may get a solid USB scanner made by Epson in U.S. for around $25. Cheers, Predrag
