🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <cx2jDEAHiZH3EwNr@puffett.demon.co.uk>, Tim Puffett
<tim@puffett.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <924644261snz@noelsys.demon.co.uk>, Ernest
><ernest@noelsys.demon.co.uk> writes
>>In article <678824293wnr@nemesis.nu> Neil@nemesis.nu "Neil Barker" writes:
>>
>>> Hmmmm. Perhaps a quick lesson on the different types of expansion 
>>> sockets on a motherboard will help to explain this.
>>
>>lots of good stuff.....
>>But what's this to do with Parallel Port Scanners?  :)
>
>maybe down to the fact that the plug on the back of the cheapo HP SCSI
>cards uses the same 25 pin canon D plug as the parallel port??
>
>Not being at all familiar with the non-business range of Compaq Pcs I
>wonder if there is an outside chance of an ISA slot lurking on the back of a
>riser card? possibly necessitating removal of the psu to gain easy access.
>Common on some low profile desktop cases, can't say I've seen it on a
>tower though.
Quite possibly, however elsewhere in this thread the original poster
said that his manual (a poor one he said) stated that there was no ISA
slot.  I must say it is a little early to be selling motherboards
without ISA slots.
>
>>
>>Methinks the original poster is well and truly lost. Maybe
>>more clarification is necessary.
>
>Scanner model number would be a good place to start.
agreed
>
Many scanners come with a parallel port card (some cheap, some
expensive) however they will work off the parallel port.  If this is the
case try setting the parallel port to ECP in the BIOS settings, if this
does not work try setting to EPP.

If you also have a parallel port printer and you are not happy with it
sharing the parallel port, Belkin make a handy connector for connecting
a parallel port printer to a USB port. They do work.  I am running my
Epson 9500 scanner through the parallel port and HP 850c and OKI 830
printers through the USB ports.

If the scanner is a SCSI device (have you kept the destruction ;-)
manual?) there are plenty of PCI SCSI cards around.
-- 
Nicholas David Richards

"O� sont les neiges d'antan?"