P.J. Alling wrote: >Well it's kind of OT but not really. A friend of mine is trying to get >his DiMage (I believe it's a Scan Multi), working with WinXP. It was >last used with a Windows 98 box, and has been in storage for the last >few years. I tried to diagnose his problems on the phone, but that >didn't work out as well as I would have liked. > >He's using an Adaptec SCSI card that according to the manufacture's site >has native XP Drivers embedded in the OS. However the Minolta supplied >software didn't recognize the scanner and neither did the OS. > >I suggested that he download Hamrick VueScan, which caused a bluescreen >when first started, and after rebooting it didn't see the scanner >either. I'm kind of at a loss, has anyone else here used an older SCSI >scanner with XP successfully? If so what steps did you take?
I have used exactly that scanner successfully with Win XP and Windows 7. With Windows 7 you definitely need VueScan. With XP you can use the Konica-Minolta software if you download their latest universal scanner driver (the drivers that came with the scanner won't work at all). It's been a while since I did it but I don't recall having any difficulty at all. I do have the XP driver that worked if he can't find it on line. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
