Well I dont know for sure if thats the case for your particular scanner,
however my Microtek SlimScan C3 is a parallel port scanner which uses SCSI
over Parallel, and I've used ppSCSI to get it working with SANE.
One of the easiest tell tale signs is to look at how the windows drivers
work. Mine even have a SCSI style probe function where it probes SCSI
ID's to find my scanner (always on ID 5), however I don't have a SCSI
adaptor in the computer!
The reason its cheaper? People with SCSI usually have more money so
manufacturers gouge them. :P
Good Luck,
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On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Paulo Abreu wrote:
> It seems the link points to some module to enable the use of a scsi adapter
> that's connected to a parallel port. Let me see if I'm getting this
> straight (100% newbie here, so be patient):
> 1. I have this parallel port scanner xyz1000P that doesn't have a sane
> backend yet.
> 2. There's a sane backend for its scsi cousin, the xyz1000SC.
> 3. Then, probably the xyz1000P is just a xyz1000SC with some kind of
> parallel port scsi adapter inside. If I know the adapter, I'll be able to
> use this module to use a scsi driver to control a parport model.
>
> Is this correct? If it is, why was my parallel port scanner much cheaper
> then the scsi cousin? It has more hw inside (scsi+parport converter)!
>
> If it isn't, can you explain a bit more?
>
> TIA
>
> Paulo
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