This is the story on how I spent far too much money and time getting a scanner to work over iSCSI so that I could prove “Chris O” wrong on

Just a bunch of scanners (JBOS?)

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This is the story on how I spent far too much money and time getting a scanner to work over iSCSI so that I could prove “Chris O” wrong on StackExchange. The TL;DR is that yes scanners work fine over iSCSI.

It begins with waking up to the thought “could I connect a scanner to SCSI disk array chassis” - probably after watching too much Adrian’s Digital Basement. I think this this is very much possible, but the thought morphed into - what about iSCSI arrays. While I joked about it I put off further investigation when I saw the price for iSCSI bays. They are still stupid expensive.

The idea still stuck with me though and I wanted to do some more research into if anyone had. I didn’t find much. All I really found was Chris saying it couldn’t be done because:

iSCSI isn’t a complete encapsulation of the SCSI protocol over TCP/IP. … Source: 15 years of managing iSCSI storage networks.