I have used an Adaptec 2906 card to run my Acer Scanwit 2720s. When it
was operating it was running under Win2000. Under Win2000 the card is
recognized and declared operational without having anything attached.
In fact that was a critical point the first time I ever used it. I
followed the directions with the scanner which was to install the SCSI
card, attach the scanner and reboot. When I did that the scanner didn't
work. Finally I detached the scanner and checked the hardware status of
the card. The 2906 was recognized as being there but declared
non-operational. That was quite a few years ago now and I can't recall
what the problem was but something simple like card not fully inserted
or wrong driver or something else besides the card being DOA. Once I
resolved that Windows declared the card to be OK and after re-attaching
the scanner all was well.
I haven't moved it to my XP machine yet so don't know how it might
behave there but don't expect it to be any different.
I completely agree with your analysis of trying to use the 2940. Cables
and/or adapters could cost you a small fortune. Don't go there since
you can probably buy another 2906 for less than $10 and maybe even way
less than $10. The 2906 is a PCI card and at least some Macs (if not
all) can use PCI cards but maybe the newer ones have moved on to the
smaller PCI Express cards. My year old Dell machine has slots for some
of both.
According to Adaptec the 2906 is supported under OS8x, 9x and OS X. The
support page also implies that a 2906 driver isn't part of the Win98
distribution. Maybe you just need a driver. Check it out here
<http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/scsi/2900/AVA-2906/>
Chuck Norcutt
Doug wrote:
> On Thursday, December 11, 2008 14:49, Johnny Johnson wrote:
>> At 02:17 PM 12/11/2008, Moose wrote:
>>> Now I'm using the generic SCSI scanner driver that comes with VueScan
>>> for the FS4000 with no problems at all. You don't have to buy VueScan to
>>> get it, as it comes in the trial version. But you do need something to
>>> operate the scanner and the software that came with it may or may not
>>> operate under your later OS. VueScan should work, though.
>> I didn't see what operating system Doug is using but if it's XP then
>> both the Polaroid and SilverFast software that shipped with SS4000
>> will work fine, or at least it does on my system.
>>
>> Later,
>> Johnny
>
> Since some members picked the SCSI issue up here is what is going on with me.
>
> A couple of years ago I had a computer go to heck from some failure of either
> a powersupply, harddrive, or motherboard which took the other two out. In
> order to have a computer I gatheres parts I had and build another computer.
> The SCSI card I'm talking about came from the original computer. It was
> installed in this computer when I built it. Even though it was in the
> computer I never hooked either of my scanners up to it.
>
> When I tried to use the card a few weeks ago I can't get either operating
> system to find the card (Adaptec 2906 card, Windows 98se or SUSE LINUX 10.0)
> without anything attached to the card. My solution was to go to eb*y and buy
> a card. What I ended up with was an Adaptec 2940u/uw. I bought it because the
> auction was about to end and it was $2. The shipping was much more. The 2940u
> has 60 pin connectors and the cabling I have is 50 pin centronics on one end
> and 25 pin D on the other. It looks like a fat parallel printer cable.
>
> Now I need to figure out what I'm going to do.
>
> 1) I can determine if and how I can hook my Poloroid SS4000 (I also have a
> microtek E6)to the 2940 card. Preliminary sense is that I can easily spend
> more on cables and adaptors than I would buying a 2906 card from eb*y
>
> 2)I can buy a used 2906 card which I know will work with my scanners. This is
> the solution that I'm leaning toward because it looks like there are cards on
> ebay going for next to nothing.
>
> Advice is welcome. Are any of these cards MAC or PC only. I believe some are.
>
>
> The other problem I have is that my SS4000 has become very dusty inside. I've
> taken it apart a ways at one time but I couldn't get at all the optical path.
> Has anyone evet taken one of these scanner all the way apart to clean it.
>
> Thanks every one. -Doug
>
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