[....] > Hello, > > I've parsed it a bit, and I must say that you're painting the picture > darker than it really is for parallel port scanners. Parallel port scanners > listed in SANE do work. No need to frighten people. > > I'm a bit skeptic about favouring ECP mode. It may be wise for printers, > but I think it is useless for scanners, unless you use some patch that > bring DMA reads. From a quick grep in SANE docs, EPP or ECP/EPP seems to be > the recommended setting.
Just a remark: The Microtek2 parport scanners (they use the onscsi parport chip) do not work in ECP or ECP/EPP mode (data corruption occurs). EPP is here the only option to get good results. Regards, Karsten
