Question

[Mike Andrew]

From: "Rick Sivernell" <res005ru at gte.net>

>    he scsi/printer port converter takes a scsi input cable and the other
end goes
> into a printer port.

err, no. Probably not. There are several types of scsi physical interface
connectors, one of them happens to be a DB25 just like a printer port but it
aint. Check the card that this connector is attached to, it is _most likely_
to be a genuine scsi card such as an aha. For some time HP bottled their
scanners this way using 'proprietary' NCR5000 interface chips. These cards
are not usable under linux because you'd have more success extracting blood
from stone than info from HP.

The reason for the confusion is that there is, separately, a device marketed
variously as 'backpack' and friends which does indeed use a genuine printer
port and electronically converts the signals into scsi at the other end, it
is highly unlikely you have this set up, but covering bases here.