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<h1>Re: ScanMaker V600 under Linux</h1>
<b>Bernd Schroeder</b> (<a href="mailto:bernd@aquila.muc.de"><i>bernd@aquila.muc.de</i></a>)<br>
<i>Fri, 6 Nov 1998 00:49:36 +0100</i>
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Hi,<br>
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On Mon, Nov 02, 1998 at 12:01:02AM +0000, Stefan Mashkevich wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; Hello All,</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; sorry for a newcomer question... Pentium/Red Hat 5.1, Microtek</i><br>
<i>&gt; ScanMaker V600 (parallel port version); sane-0.74 won't recognize</i><br>
<i>&gt; it -- /dev/scanner is not created and no further action takes place.</i><br>
<i>&gt; I haven't found any hints in the documentation...</i><br>
<i>&gt; what could be the problem?</i><br>
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Microtek parallel port scanners are currently not supported by sane.<br>
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What I can tell is the following: According to a mail from Grant Guenter<br>
(the maintainer (or one of the maintainers ?) of the Linux parport<br>
project) on the parport mailinglist some weeks ago, at least some<br>
Microtek scanners have an OnSpec 90C26 for their SCSI-connection.<br>
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This chip allows to add some additional hardware (some kind of<br>
SCSI &lt;-&gt; parallel adapter), so that SCSI-devices can be connected<br>
to the PC's parallel port.<br>
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This means, that those "parallel port" devices, that are built with this<br>
chip, are actually SCSI devices. I suppose, that this is at least the<br>
case for models, where both a SCSI and a parallel port version exist.<br>
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It also means, that the protocol, which is used for the communication<br>
between the backend and the device, is most likely the same for both<br>
variants, so that these parallelport scanners would be useable, if a<br>
parallel port driver would exist.<br>
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According to his mail on the parport mailing list, Grant is currently<br>
working on such a driver (which would indeed only work under Linux).<br>
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Bernd<br>
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