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.<p>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.<p>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.<p>The page count on the scanner is around 25,000, and still holding strong.
SCSI cabling issues are so much more fun 20 years on, and happening to someone else.<p>Once had a system with 16 SCSI controllers and 36 disks connected to them.
> so that I could prove “Chris O” wrong on StackExchange.<p>If that is the case and this works, why is there no answer stating that on StackExchange?