On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Josh McCaffrey wrote:
> What about a SCANNER that connects via parallell port, but in Device Mgr in windows,
> there's a device for the scanner that says SCSI? I don't know anything about SCSI
> devices, and my scanner is a Microtek ScanMaker X6, which i found a config file for
> at /etc/sane.d/microtek.conf. Doesn't specify a Scanmaker, but i remember this as
> being supported but that's just what I *remember* ;-)
>
If the SCANNER connects to the Paralell port, it's a Paralell
scanner. Period. No M$ tricks can make it into a SCSI scanner.
According to Microtek, the X6 comesx in three versions:
USB, EPP (Paralell) and SCSI. If your scanner came with a proprietary
card, then it's SCSI. If it plugs into your printer port it's
paralell. If it plugs into the USB port, it's probably not supported
yet. There is only "beta" support in current release versions of
Linux for USB. The URL for the info on the Scanmaker X6 is
http://www.microtek.com/usi-smx62.html
John
