Marcel Pol schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> A friend of mine owns a parport scanner, a Philips.
> We did not really try yet to set it up, but we would like to.
> Is there someone who knows something about the support-status of Philips
> scanners.
> Philips doesn't make scanners anymore, but they did it a few years ago.
>
> There is no Philips backend, but it could be supported by another backend.
>
> It's a parport model, and it uses the OnSpec 90c26, which is supported by the
> kernel.
> Under Windows it says something about SimpleScsi, which sounds to me like it
> uses a scsi protocol (which is required for a parport model).
> However, the two Microtek (1 & 2) scanners I know use the same chip, but on the
> scanner side there is a 50 pin connection, where this Philips scanner has 25
> pins (with a quick look).
>
> There is another thing also, at the moment there is Linux installed, but it
> might be nice to have it run under Unixware 7.
> There is a readme about it.
> I'm just wondering if Unixware can support such a parport scanner, or just scsi
> scanners.
>
>
Sane supports only SCSI scanners on Unixware .
Bye Wolfgang
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