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 [log in to unmask] 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. _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]