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<title>sane-devel: Re: UMAX-ASTRA-300P</title>
<h1>Re: UMAX-ASTRA-300P</h1>
<a href="mailto:becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de"><i>becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de</i></a><br>
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<i>&gt; &gt; parallel-to-SCSI converter that could be supported by the Linux</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; SCSI layer, but that kind of support, if it ever does exist, is</i><br>
<i>&gt; &gt; probably a long way off still.</i><br>
<i>&gt; I think a scsi-to-parallel driver already exists under linux</i><br>
<i>&gt; (I think I read about a parallel ZIP drive working with linux).</i><br>
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<i>&gt; Does anybody know if thats right and how that works? Perhaps</i><br>
<i>&gt; thats a driver that does all the work and for the software it</i><br>
<i>&gt; is like a scsi-device with a special name like /dev/parscsi,</i><br>
<i>&gt; then it should be no (big) problem.</i><br>
It is a simple SCSI driver, like all others :<br>
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IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support<br>
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA<br>
This driver supports the parallel port version of IOMEGA's ZIP drive<br>
(a 100Mb removable media device). For more information about this<br>
driver and how to use it you should read the file<br>
drivers/scsi/README.ppa. You should also read the SCSI-HOWTO, which<br>
is available via anonymous ftp from sunsite.unc.edu in the directory<br>
/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO. This driver is also available as a module<br>
which can be inserted in and removed from the running kernel<br>
whenever you want. If you want to use any two of a parallel port ZIP<br>
drive, a parallel printer or PLIP on the same parallel port, you<br>
should compile the drivers as modules and only insert them as<br>
needed. To compile this driver as a module, say M here and read<br>
Documentation/modules.txt. The module will be called ppa.o. Note<br>
that you can say N here if you have the SCSI version of the ZIP<br>
drive: it will be supported automatically if you said Y to the<br>
generic "SCSI disk support", above.<br>
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However this is not the only parallel-to-scsi-convertor available. I think<br>
newer kernels know some more. Let's hope one of them is compatible with<br>
one of the parport scanner solutions.<br>
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CU,Andy<br>
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