Mary and Listers,
No, this scanner proposes to work with either the scsi card or the
parallel port. I agree that a PCI card would be the solution but he
doesn't want to spend the extra money.
Joel Bluming
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On Sun, 1 Mar 1998 19:54:27 -0600 Mary Wolden <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
>I was not aware that a scanner could be both scsi and serial in the
>same
>version.  If you have the scsi version your best bet to get it running
>is to
>buy a pci scsi card.  I have the hp 4c scanner which came with an isa
>scsi
>card ( I have a Dell too - no isa slots left) and I installed a pci
>scsi
>Advanced Sys scsi card.  I run an external cd rom and iomega scsi zip
>drive
>off the card too.
>
>Usually there may be two different scanners, one that is scsi and one
>that
>is for the parallel port.  They cannot run on both interfaces but only
>on
>one or the other.

>>Since the Dell only has 2 ISA slots which are both populated
>>(Winmodem and soundcard) I could not install the SCSI card
>>that came with the scanner. It's other alternative was thru
>>the printer port. It wants an EPP port which I set up in
>>CMOS. The scanner plugs into the computer port and the
>>printer plugs into the scanner.

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