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 here. Here you can find
paride subsystem for parallel port IDE devices ( here)
support for parallel port SCSI devices ( here)
Accton EtherPocket adapter
AT-Lan-Tec/RealTek parallel port ethernet adapter
D-Link DE600/DE620 parallel port ethernet adapter
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
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
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
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
The parport_cs driver requires kernel 2.2.x or later
Quatech SPP-100
IOtech DBK35, WBK20A