Buying a new, high quality flatbed like the 4990 is probably the best
thing to do. Especially if you get something with an IR channel for
dust removal. But if you want to try a 2906 in the meantime you can
probably buy one for a song on ebay. It will probably cost you more for
the shipping than the card. There are lots of Adaptec SCSI cards
floating around but the 2906 is the one you want because its connector
is compatible with the cable you got with the Scanwit scanner. Having
to replace a cable (there are many types) is more problematic than
getting the right card in the first place.
Chuck Norcutt
Roger Wesson wrote:
> Moose wrote:
>> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>> I don't have Vista..... It's possible the 2906 driver would run the Acard
>>> SCSI adapter that comes with the Scanwit.
>>>
>> I certainly don't know about Acard. I am running an Adaptec 2930CU card
>> under Vista and the XP driver from Adaptec works. They have a new one
>> for Vista that I haven't tried yet.
>>
>> An important thing to know about Vista and drivers - it is not uncommon,
>> in my experience, for the driver installer to not be Vista compatible,
>> but for the driver it installs to be fine under Vista. So the trick is
>> to set the properties for the installer for compatibility with an
>> earlier version of Windoze. It then runs fine the one time it is needed
>> and the driver is OK too. It seems that most XP drivers are fine with Vista.
>
> I tried this with the Acard drivers, but it didn't work. I also tried
> Chuck's suggestion of seeing if the Adaptec drivers would run the Acard,
> but that didn't work either. So it seems that if I want to carry on
> using my Scanwit I'll need to buy an Adaptec card and vuescan. I'm
> slightly torn between that and investing in a new scanner with USB,
> which would be a lot quicker (I think). Edging towards investing in
> new, and am quite tempted by the Espon 4990, having now read reviews and
> seen scans from it.
>
>> As to the Plusteck scanner, I did some looking into it a while ago and
>> was not impressed. I think there is a thread in the archives.
>
> I was a bit suspicious, given the price and the claimed resolution. I'm
> definitely cooling on the idea of buying it - thanks very much for the
> information.
>
> Roger
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