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.