# Re: Help: Mustek 600 II N scanner

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Sun, 9 Nov 1997 10:37:30 -0800

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>>>>> On Sun, 9 Nov 1997 14:17:07 +0000, "Johan Bengtsson" <johanb@lls.se> said:

Johan> On 9 Nov 97 at 12:03, becka@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de wrote:
>> > >> On the card it is written: AB306N I/F CARD REV. A
>>
>> > >> On one of the chips there is the following text: GA 160 AH
>> 1515.1 > >> 9703
>>
>> > The ab306 is the parallel port interface for the 600 II N.
>>
>> Interesting ... Why the heck are they supplying a parallel port
>> with their scanner ? Are they afraid you might not have one ? Or
>> does the scanner hog the port and you can't print anymore ?

Johan> The scanner has a 26 pin connector (looks like a VGA
Johan> connector, but a bit wider) which fits the supplied card, but
Johan> it can't be plugged into the paralell port. The card is very
Johan> small, and only takes up half the ISA slot (8 bit card?). I'm
Johan> almost 100% sure it's not a scsi card, because it's not
Johan> detected on bootup (I've included scsi support in kernel) and
Johan> I found a usenet posting that said that it wasn't a scsi card
Johan> but some proprietary design. So i guess I can forget about
Johan> using this scanner with Linux ,or...?

Well, apparently you don't take my word for it, so I suggest to get
sane-0.67 and do:

$ ls sane-0.67/sanei

You'll find a file called sanei_ab306.c. If you look in the header of
that file, it says:

This file implements the Mustek-proprietary SCSI-over-parallel-port
interface. */

I gave the caveats and pointers to how to setup a parallel-port
scanner in a previous mail, so I won't repeat them here.

--david

PS: How come you buy a scanner without knowing what interface it has?
Isn't that mentioned somewhere on the box and/or user's manual?

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