On 11/29/18 9:55 PM, Russell Senior wrote:
I don't know that I've ever seen a usb-scsi adapter in the flesh. It does seem from an amazon search that they do exist.
I saw that, too. But I've been bitten by things like this before, where it works for a subset of all use cases, just not mine. Hence my reason for asking.
You may well be better off going to free geek's thrift shop and seeing if they have a pci-scsi adapter you could plug into a not-new desktop box.
I actually have one of those, both the older box and the PCI SCSI card, and it's where I last ran the old scanner. I don't run that box on a regular basis, and don't have it set up. But that may be the thing I need to do.
or just buying a new scanner. or going to a copy place with scanners.
A week or so ago I asked about printers. This was one of the reasons. The nice thing about this Epson scanner is that it has a larger flat bed, so it can scan legal size. Not that I need to do that often, but it's nice to have. I may just have to set that box up again. Last I remember, it has Ubuntu 12.04 on it. But since I probably won't need to access the Internet with it, maybe leaving it at 12 will be okay.
Thanks for your thoughts. Maybe I'll get to it this weekend, after I tweak the Slackware laptop some more.
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