On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:21:25 +0200, Get A. Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I was given an oldish UMAX Astra 1200S which according to the previous > owner worked fine, but that he had lost any accompanying floppy disks. I > tried to find drivers for my Windows machine with no luck. I also have a > SUSE 10.1 installation on another machine where I had hoped it might > work, again depending on driver availability. A recent post on this list > indicated that some people have had luck with their 1200S but other > information indicate there are no drivers for 1200S available. Are there > different versions of the 1200S, like USB, SCSI and Parallel Port, with > different driver requirements? > > What are my chances of getting this scanner to work within a near > future? (It is essentially my daughter who is anxious to know...) > > David > > _________________________________________________________________ > Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! > http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ > > David, the driver for the Umax 1200 S (the 'S' stands for SCSI) should already be on your hd in a SuSE 10.1 Installation. You may check it with Yast - Hardware - Scanner. If you don't get the list of drivers, you will have to postinstall the SANE-package. A more serious point is the scsi-controller (PCI-card). This one shipped together with the scanner by Umax probably won't work. You will need a decent one from an independent manufacturer (AdvanSys, Dawicontrol or so - not very cheap,. so googling around for an used one may spare some money). The controller needs a seperate driver normally loaded by the kernel at boot time. As for Windows: XP supports the 1200 S directly with an own driver - try a postinstallation with the hardware/device-manager. For the original Vistascan-driver go to http://www.umax.com/support. It's not downloadable, only available on CD-ROM. -- Wolfram Heider
