From: MLONG@isucard.card.iastate.edu
Subject: Re: Can you run an HP scanner on LPT2?
Organization: CARD
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:24:31 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.012540.1898@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>                                                                                               
imp@macbeth.Berkeley.EDU (Imp) writes:                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                      
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>We installed OS/2 a little while back, and tried to scan under it                                                                                    
>using Publishers Paintbrush in a full-screen DOS session.  However,                                                                                  
>the scanner driver was unable to load, apparently because it wasn't                                                                                  
>able to access lpt2, the port the scanner was using.  When we called                                                                                 
>HP, they said no additional drivers were neccesary, and it should work                                                                               
>the way I ran it.  I've had troble before dealing with printer ports                                                                                 
>and com ports under OS/2...is there some trick I need to know in                                                                                     
>order to use the scanner?                                                                                                                            
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>Thanks a lot for any help you can give.                                                                                                              
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> email: imp@macbeth.Berkeley.EDU   Disclaimer: This is all just a dream.  Chill                                                                      
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Are you using a HP Scanjet scanner (or +)?  We have been succesful with a                                                                             
+.  But it does not use a parallel printer LPT port, it has its own dedicated                                                                         
adpater card just for the scanner.  To get ours to work I had to set the                                                                              
shared RAM address on the scanner adapter card to CC00-CFFF and the I/O                                                                               
to 0268-026F.  In the WINOS2 settings for the program object that use                                                                                 
the scanner I had to Exclude the memory range CC00-CFFF and load the scanner                                                                          
driver in the device settings.                                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                                      
Mike Long                                                                                                                                             
Iowa State University                                                                                                                                 
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