Re: Microtek Phantom with ppSCSI

From: Marcel Pol (mpol@gmx.net)
Date: Wed Aug 09 2000 - 23:16:52 PDT

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    On 10-Aug-00 Riku Turkia wrote:
    >> > Has anyone got Microtek Phantom with parallel port cable (model
    > MRS-600V3)
    >> > working with ppSCSI patches? I have tried but without any luck.
    >>
    >> Not that same model, but i had two working with ppscsi.
    >
    > I finally got it working! Now the very last reason to use any Windows
    > compatible operating system has gone away. Except for OCR application I
    > may
    > have to use WINE if I don't want to pay $99 for Vivdata's OCR Shop (is
    > anyone using it?).
    >
    > Funny thing is that although the badge says MRS-600V3 SANE and others
    > recognise the scanner as 300A4.

    Nice that you got it working :)
    For ocr you might like to try gocr. You can get it at:
    http://altmark.nat.uni-magdeburg.de/~jschulen/ocr/

    >> I like it as module, with the 2.2 kernel i have some problems with
    >> sharing
    > the
    >> parport with a printer. With 2.4 it seems to go much smoother, but
    >> well, i
    > used
    >> it only for one week.
    >
    > There are obvious problems with sharing. As long as I had parport module
    > loaded, onscsi replied that "Resource is busy".

     
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