It is done. My quest to get a scanner to working over iSCSI is complete.
I can now safely claim that Chris on SuperUser is wrong. There is nothing stopping you from having scanners running over a storage network.
https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2024/05/08/jbos/
This has been one of my dumbest, expensive and time consuming projects.
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@xssfox you may just be slightly insane, but I would have backed you all the way. SCSI has always been able to do funky shit.
If I recall correctly, you could set up crude networking with it between two MACs
@xssfox Now try something more cursed like one of these?
I've seen this elusive peripheral referenced for years. There's a few pictures of the device and a video capture of it actually working online but I knew it was rare. I saw one pop up on Mercari for ~$40 and knew I needed to grab it. Box: Contents: Unfortunately, mine is missing the...
@xssfox Last time I wanted scanning over a network (and yes, it was an old SCSI A3 Umax scanner)… I turned to SANE on the machine the scanner was connected to, and its `net` plug-in.
On Windows (Win2000 specifically), we used SANETwain… which was a TWAIN driver that acted as a SANE net client.
@xssfox Probably because (at least for now) the ARM64 version is mostly limited to tablets and laptops.
There's a few other bits missing, too, eg. RSAT.
@xssfox https://superuser.com/questions/1768863/can-iscsi-be-used-share-scsi-scanner-over-network "Can iSCSI be used share SCSI scanner over network?"
Yes.
"If so... how do you configure it at both ends?" well ehr, ehm... ... 👻
@xan @xssfox I've actually been wanting to do a slightly-more-modern version of that for retro game consoles that are just a little too retro to support proper netloading, allowing me to fit my whole collection on my NAS instead of "a random USB disk that may or may not be compatible with a particularly picky USB stack" (see: the wii is very picky about what flash drives it works with, or at least it was when I tried that...)
It's actually fairly easy to do this with USB and a pi zeroW or similar, since linux's gadget framework supports mass-storage emulation, and there's nothing stopping you from setting the backing 'file' to an iSCSI LUN (or even going full passthrough mode for some reason)
@xssfox Now I feel sad for throwing out my scanner and other SCSI equipment like 10 years ago.
But one point caught me: SE and HVD are not the same, they use the same cables, but different terminators and signalling.
@xssfox I can't overstate how much I agree with this:
> There’s a bit of a meme about printers being the worst computer accessory to setup, configure and maintain. I don’t believe this is true. Scanners a far far far worse
Fired up Windows 11 in parallels however it seems like iSCSI has been completely removed in Windows 11
It’s still there (I use it to share my blu-ray drive for testing purposes), but my guess is that you’re on arm mac and use arm version of windows, which has some missing components
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