Thanks alot, this looks like it may work, it has an "onscsi" protocol
module which I recognize from the windows drivers, I'll try it out and
post my story here when I'm done.
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Matto Marjanovic wrote:
>
> >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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