[KLUG Members] Scanners?

[Greg Mason]

> Just curious.... Are you saying that you cannot (or will not?) plug 
> your
> (powered-off) scanner into your SCSI cable while the PC is running? 
> Why not?
>
> Although it's usually already connected, I wouldn't give a second 
> thought to
> plugging the SCSI cable into my old, reliable HP ScanJet 3c while the 
> PC was
> powered up and the scanner was powered off.
>
> In fact, that scanner is never powered up unless I'm using it, in 
> which case a
> simple 'rescan-scsi-bus' (re-)detects it.

This is similar to how the old Mac OS did things. You'd have to power 
down the device to unplug it, but other than that, everything was 
hotplugable. I'd imagine it still is, but last time I saw a macintosh 
with SCSI it was in the pre-G3 days of the PowerPC architecture.

does the scanner have to be new? buying a supported model off eBay or 
buying a refurbished model might prove to be less of a headache (or 
just get a new one and plug it into your PowerBook...)

-Greg