two steps forward one step back

[Charles Hallenbeck]

The interface card has a 25 pin female socket and the scanner has a
Centronics connector. I can use the original connecting cable
interchangeably with a standard printer cable. The interface card has an
I/O address which makes it appear like lpt2 (or lp1) to the OS, and in DOS
there is a memory mapped region just above video memory that needs to be
shielded from reassignment by emm386.
 On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Kerry Hoath
wrote:

> The 2+ has a 25-pin port on the interface card but
> you can get cables that go from whatever to 25-pin. Does t he scanner have 25-pin female
> on the back of it? I have seen cables that go from centronics
> to 25-pin no worries in fact I have one hear for my HP 3P.
>
> Regards, Kerry.
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:22:14AM -0500, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
> > I am glad to know DOS runs on your system, John - that meas there has got
> > to be a way for it run here, so I will pursue that angle.
> >
> > Steve - this flat bed scanner is a very old one which requires a
> > proprietary interface card. The card looks like a printer port, and the
> > connecting cable is a standard printer cable. So a PCI/SCSI card will
> > probably not help. I need a new scanner, and if I do that I will probably
> > just get on board with the Linux development efforts. But it will all have
> > to wait until after the holiday bills come in.
> >
> > Visit me at http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh
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