[HN Gopher] Just a Bunch of Scanners (JBOS?)
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       Just a Bunch of Scanners (JBOS?)
        
       Author : soopurman
       Score  : 57 points
       Date   : 2024-05-08 14:09 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | panki27 wrote:
       | > so that I could prove "Chris O" wrong on StackExchange.
       | 
       | If that is the case and this works, why is there no answer
       | stating that on StackExchange?
        
         | gorkish wrote:
         | It'd be worthwhile to ask why that answer persisted on SE in
         | the first place.
         | 
         | I've used iscsi before with sg and scd devices; it's never even
         | occurred to me that anyone should think it's limited to disks,
         | because, well, it's not.
         | 
         | For the record, ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) is/was a competing
         | protocol to iSCSI, and it also has generic ATAPI support.
         | 
         | For anyone looking to build a rube goldberg machine for thier
         | youtube channel or get up to similar shenanigans, I think it
         | would be funny use case to get a SCSI Ethernet adapter running
         | over iSCSI.
        
       | don-code wrote:
       | While it's not a SCSI model, I suspect that the scanner on my
       | LaserJet 1100a, circa 1997 - which I still use at least weekly -
       | has more staying power than many scanners made available in the
       | last 10 or 20 years. I still use it with SANE on a modern laptop
       | running Fedora.
       | 
       | The last released driver for this scanner was for Windows 2000.
       | That driver works fine on Windows XP, but not on Windows Vista or
       | higher. Luckily, as a Linux user, hplip supports the scanner out
       | of the box. When I was still a Windows user, I'd run NT4 in a
       | virtual machine, pass the parallel port through, then share a
       | folder between the local machine and the VM.
       | 
       | The fact that it's a parallel scanner presented its own set of
       | archaic problems, like "what mode do I put the parallel port
       | in?". Luckily, since upgrading to a machine without a parallel
       | port, I've let that be the responsibility of a JetDirect 300x,
       | which exposes the scanner as an IP network device. I've had
       | significantly fewer problems since adopting that setup.
       | 
       | The page count on the scanner is around 25,000, and still holding
       | strong.
        
       | h2odragon wrote:
       | SCSI cabling issues are so much more fun 20 years on, and
       | happening to someone else.
       | 
       | Once had a system with 16 SCSI controllers and 36 disks connected
       | to them.
        
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