On Sat, 19 Apr 2003 11:50:24 -0700
Mike <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm out of IRQ's and this is causing me several problems. I have
> two SCSI scanners each with their own ISA card and each taking up
> an IRQ. These cards are unique to each scanner, i.e. cannot be
> daisy chained. ISA is another problem since new mb's lack them. So
> I figure I bite the bullet and buy a new PCI SCSI card which frees
> up an IRQ plus can be moved to a new motherboard when I can afford
> it. This poses several questions and I'll try to explain but I'm
> new at this so bear with me. Running W98 by the way.
>
> -The first scanner is a flatbed Microtek Scanmaker E3. It has a
> SCSI cable similar to a printer cable
> -Scanner #2 is an HP PhotoSmart film scanner which uses a different
> style SCSI cable, smaller connector than #1
>
> Questions:
>
> -Please recommend a SCSI card compatible with the above scanners.
Most anything from Adaptec (www.adaptec.com) works reliably and is
following the standards pretty well. Unless your scanners are grossly
misbehaving, I'd say they'll connect fine to an (any, even)
adaptec-card. As for drivers to W98, I do not know that OS and cannot
comment on neither existance nor quality of such.
> - How do I connect them together on one card? Order? Cable
> adapters? Termination?
www.adaptec.com has a lot of usefull information to this end,
describing cables, connecters etc.
>
> OM content: I use these scanners to scan my photos taken with OM's
> and
> want to use my new tablet to edit them but lack of IRQ's are
> causing me problems.
>
I do not understand why it is you say you cannot connect the two
scanners to the same (existing) SCSI-card. Except, of course, if your
scsi-cards are seriously crippled....
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