> >>>>> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997 14:17:07 +0000, "Johan Bengtsson" <johanb@lls.se> said:
>
> Johan> On 9 Nov 97 at 12:03, becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:
> >> > >> On the card it is written: AB306N I/F CARD REV. A
> >>
> >> > >> On one of the chips there is the following text: GA 160 AH
> >> 1515.1 > >> 9703
> >>
> >> > The ab306 is the parallel port interface for the 600 II N.
> >>
> >> Interesting ... Why the heck are they supplying a parallel port
> >> with their scanner ? Are they afraid you might not have one ? Or
> >> does the scanner hog the port and you can't print anymore ?
>
> Johan> The scanner has a 26 pin connector (looks like a VGA
> Johan> connector, but a bit wider) which fits the supplied card, but
> Johan> it can't be plugged into the paralell port. The card is very
> Johan> small, and only takes up half the ISA slot (8 bit card?). I'm
> Johan> almost 100% sure it's not a scsi card, because it's not
> Johan> detected on bootup (I've included scsi support in kernel) and
> Johan> I found a usenet posting that said that it wasn't a scsi card
> Johan> but some proprietary design. So i guess I can forget about
> Johan> using this scanner with Linux ,or...?
>
> Well, apparently you don't take my word for it, so I suggest to get
> sane-0.67 and do:
>
> $ ls sane-0.67/sanei
>
> You'll find a file called sanei_ab306.c. If you look in the header of
> that file, it says:
>
> This file implements the Mustek-proprietary SCSI-over-parallel-port
> interface. */
As I said it *does not* connect to the computer with a parallell port
connector, it connects with an *ISA card*...
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