> Does anybody know if thats right and how that works? Perhaps
> thats a driver that does all the work and for the software it
> is like a scsi-device with a special name like /dev/parscsi,
> then it should be no (big) problem.
It is a simple SCSI driver, like all others :
IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA
This driver supports the parallel port version of IOMEGA's ZIP drive
(a 100Mb removable media device). For more information about this
driver and how to use it you should read the file
drivers/scsi/README.ppa. You should also read the SCSI-HOWTO, which
is available via anonymous ftp from sunsite.unc.edu in the directory
/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. This driver is also available as a module
which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel
whenever you want. If you want to use any two of a parallel port ZIP
drive, a parallel printer or PLIP on the same parallel port, you
should compile the drivers as modules and only insert them as
needed. To compile this driver as a module, say M here and read
Documentation/modules.txt. The module will be called ppa.o. Note
that you can say N here if you have the SCSI version of the ZIP
drive: it will be supported automatically if you said Y to the
generic "SCSI disk support", above.
However this is not the only parallel-to-scsi-convertor available. I think
newer kernels know some more. Let's hope one of them is compatible with
one of the parport scanner solutions.
CU,Andy
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