Its been a while but I used a Canon Canonscan FS4000 on an XP box
running through a SCSI port. The Adaptec AHA940AU card in the XP machine
displays a dialog box when the machine boots - before XP loads. You see
the BIOS and then Adaptec message (with the right key strokes you can go
in and configure it) and then XP loads. You probably checked this
already but if the SCSI card shows up as functioning properly in device
manager then I would expect the scanner to work. I still have the SCSI
card in my XP box and see that start up message every time I boot up.
The power supply on my XP box blew a while back, and while it was out of
commission I ran the Canoscan via its USB 1.1 interface off my laptop,
running 32 bit vista. It was slow but the output was fine. However, it
would not work with Vuescan or the Canon software until I installed the
device drivers. I initially tried running the scanner, via the USB 1.1
interface, on a 64 bit WIndows 7 machine, but could not get it to work.
I used a Minolta Diamage scanner as one of my first dedicated film
scanners and loved it Don't remember the exact model number. . The DMAX
for slides was not so hot and it had problems with shadows on slide
film, but it nailed the color balance of slide and C-41 film better than
any other scanner I have ever used, and I've used a lot of them.
Mark
On 8/11/2013 5:26 PM, 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?
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