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Jeff Nehring wrote:
> Upon starting up the computer: it does
> not find the software for the scanner and treats it as a new device on
> every start. I have installed the software for the scanner and the
> scanner seems to work fine once you bypass all the warning about new
> hardware.
Ouch...this sounds like our Nikon coolscan. Win95 wants to set it up as
a device for each of the 7 available ID's on the scsi chain. It will not
run properly when the flatbed scanner (on the scame interface card) is
on, nor will it let the flatbed work, so it's an endless cycle of 'turn
off the flatbed and on the slide scanner, reboot' to get it to work
properly.
Of course all the graphics departments on campus swear by their
Coolscans, but they kinda laugh at us when we tell 'em we're running it
on a Windows box.
The problem is that drivers for many of the scsi devices on Win think
they're using the $@#!$@#!@ Adaptec 'one device only' el-cheapo scsi
adapters.
This being a Umax, I'd believe it. They do weird things on the Mac's
too. I like my Umax scanner, but the software steadfastly refuses to
believe that a Mac could have more than one SCSI bus. I have to keep the
scanner's ID free on both my internal and external SCSI chains for the
scanner to use, as I found out recently when I added a new internal hard
drive and my scanner stopped working.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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