[sane-devel] Parallel Port as SCSI

[Get A. Long]

Hi all,

Thank you all for your helpful comments!

I went out and bought a PCI-SCSI card (Adaptec AHA-2904) + a noname optical 
mouse + a set of El Cheapo SoundBlaster speakers + an Animatrix DVD . All 
for 16$. So, I feel it was worth the 400 yd walk. :)

The system recognizes the Adaptec card, but still no luck with the 
scanner... :(

Any tricks up the sleeve?

Thanks in advance for any help!


>From: Peter Fales <psfales at fales-lorenz.net>
>To: "Get A. Long" <g3t4l0ng at hotmail.com>
>CC: sane-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org
>Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Parallel Port as SCSI
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 10:03:12 -0500
>
>Apple came out with a SCSI bus using DB-25 connectors.  (I believe
>they were the first to do this, and though it probably violates the
>SCSI standards, they carry enough market weight that it has now become
>a de-facto standard and you can now buy 25-pin SCSI cables and connectors)
>
>There are also various flavors of parallel port to SCSI converters
>around.  But, since your equipment actually says "SCSI" on the port,
>that's probably what it really is.   You  would  need to refer to the
>documentation to know for sure.
>
>My Microtek scanner has both 25-pin and 50-pin SCSI connectors on it.  But
>both are true SCSI - I believe the 25-pin connector is there to cater
>to Apple users.
>
>--
>
>Peter Fales
>Peter "at" fales-lorenz.net
>
>On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:31:19PM +0200, Get A. Long wrote:
> > Hi again,
> >
> > Looking at the pictures at howstuffworks.com it is seems I do have a
> > parallel cable, and two parallel ports (both DB-25, 'females') in the
> > scanner. Funnily, on my scanner both these ports
> > (http://computer.howstuffworks.com/parallel-port1.htm) are labelled 
>"SCSI"
> > with large (8 mm) letters.
> >
> > The SCSI cable is illustrated at
> > http://computer.howstuffworks.com/scsi1.htm but does not look like 
>anything
> > I have and would not fit anywhere in the scanner, or the computer. So, I
> > understand your surprise! :)
> >
> > >From http://computer.howstuffworks.com/parallel-port.htm :
> >
> > >Parallel ports can be used to connect a host of popular computer
> > >peripherals:
> > >
> > >   * Printers
> > >   * Scanners
> > >  * CD burners
> > >   * External hard drives
> > >   * Iomega Zip removable drives
> > >   * Network adapters
> > >   * Tape backup drives
> >
> > Apparently, parallel ports are used for scanners, and the UMAX Astra 
>1200S
> > has it, despite labelled as SCSI. I guess then there is some software
> > emulation or something like that somewhere, or did I misunderstand it?
> >
> > Thanks for any help on how to proceed before I buy that card!
> >
> > David
> >
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