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28. Appendix C. Supported Parallel Port devices

More and more, the parallel port is used to connect other devices than printers. To support this parallel port drivers are written for the devicesto work. This appendix presents devices for which parallel port support is written.

To be clear: printers are not presented in this appendix as they are not supported by parallel port support projects.

Also, check the Linux Parallel Port support pages for more information http://www.torque.net/parport. Here you can find

• paride subsystem for parallel port IDE devices ( http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html)
• support for parallel port SCSI devices ( http://www.torque.net/parport/parscsi.html)

28.1 Ethernet

• Accton EtherPocket adapter
• AT-Lan-Tec/RealTek parallel port ethernet adapter
• D-Link DE600/DE620 parallel port ethernet adapter

28.2 Hard drives

• H45 Quick HD
• KingByte IDE/ATAPI disks
• KT Technologies PHd portable hard disk
• MicroSolutions backpack hard-drives
• SyQuest EZ-135
• SyQuest EZ-230
• SyQuest SparQ
• ValueStor external hard-drive

28.3 Tape drives

• Hewlett-Packard Colorado Tracker 250 tape drive (all except the T1000e)
• Hewlett-Packard HP Colorado 5GB tape drive
• Iomega Ditto tape drive
• MicroSolutions backpack 8000t, 8000td tape drives

28.4 CD-ROM drives

• Freecom Power CD
• Freecom Traveller CD-ROM
• H45 Quick CD
• Hewlett-Packard HP 7100e/7200e CD-R
• KingByte IDE/ATAPI CD-ROMs
• MicroSolutions backpack CD-ROM. Models 163550 and later are supported by the paride driver. For models 160550 and 162550 seperate drivers are availavble.
• MicroSolutions backpack PD/CD drive
• SyQuest SyJet

28.5 Removable drives

• Avatar Shark 250
• Imation Superdisk
• Iomega ZIP, ZIP Plus drives

28.6 IDE Adapter

• Arista ParaDrive products
• DataStor Commuter disks
• Fidelity International Technologies TransDisk products
• Freecom IQ Cable Parallel
• Shuttle Technology EPAT/EPEZ parallel port IDE adapter
• Shuttle Technology EPIA parallel port IDE adapter

28.7 SCSI Adapters

• Adaptec APA-348 mini-SCSI plus adapter cable
  Driver available at http://www.torque.net/parpart/parscsi.html
• Adaptec APA-358 mini-SCSI EPP adapter cable
  Driver available at http://www.torque.net/parpart/parscsi.html
• Shuttle Technology EPSA-2 parallel port SCSI adapter
  Driver available at http://www.torque.net/parpart/parscsi.html
• Shuttle Technology EPST parallel port SCSI adapter
  Driver available at http://www.torque.net/parpart/parscsi.html

28.8 Digital Camera

• Connectix QuickCam