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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 19:33:21 +0000 Tom Brough wrote:
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 00:00, Grant Sewell wrote:Now, everywhere I look (including the SANE site) reckons that the Epson GT5k is a parallel scanner......Funny, I have one of these and although I only played with it very briefly I'm sure I got it to work off a parallel port. Tom.
I have one too! Using all me deductive powers, I have discerned that it is
definitely a SCSI device. On the back it has two connectors - 1 x DB25 and 1 x
Centronics 50 - both with "SCSI" stamped underneath them, it has a dial with the
numbers 0-7 and a * around it, it has a little switch with "SW ON/OFF" on it, it
responds to the SCSI reset commands on bootup when plugged in, and "cdrecord
-scanbus" reports it as thus:
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) 'EPSON ' 'SCANNER GT-5000 ' '1.07' Processor
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
I can find *nothing* about this particular device anywhere! I can find plenty of
references of the Parallel version, but not a dicky bird of the SCSI variety. Just
my luck!
I've been playing around with them both and I really can't decide which is better.
I quite like the Epson because it's quieter and faster.
Grant.
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