Re: Microtek SlimScan Cx Parallel?

Matto Marjanovic (maddog@mir.com)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 03:33:50 -0500

>I recently purchased a Microtek SlimScan C3 Parallel Port Scanner as I
>dont have a SCSI card, and as you all probably know, its unsupported.
...
>I was wondering if there was any plan in the future to try to support
>these Microtek parallel port scanners? I wouldnt mind being a guinea pig
>or helping out in any way I could, however I dont know C well enough to do
>anything useful in that area.

Marcel Pol wrote mail to this list [1] saying that his Pagewizard was
recognized by the scsi system by using the ppSCSI drivers [2] -- I'm
almost certain that his scanner will work with the microtek driver
now that it looks like a scsi device (given a patch or two regarding
the scanner id).

I just peeked at the ppSCSI page, and it mentions explicitly:

"In particular, the HP-5200C parallel port scanner and the Microtek
ScanMaker v310 have been tested with the epst and onscsi modules,
respectively, using the SANE tools."

(That would have been with the microtek2 backend.)

Looks like a good sign....

-matt m.

Ref:
1) http://www.mostang.com/mail-archive/sane-devel/1999-11/0305.html
2) http://www.torque.net/parport/ppscsi.html

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