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Re: SCSI.

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In article <UD7Sz.242362$rH.212914@fx16.am4>,
Benderthe.evilrobot <Benderthe.evilrobot@virginmedia.com> wrote:

>> Mostly just for older (legacy) equipment.  I've still got one CD-R
>> burner, an HP scanner, and some DAT drives which use SCSI.  All of
>> these are 5-10 years old.
>
>Thanks - I had a HP scanner that I expected to continue using indefinitely, 
>the card that came with it was 8 bit ISA. When I upgraded out the ISA 
>motherboards, I couldn't get the install disc to recognise a generic SCSI 
>card.

Yeah.  Unfortunately, a lot of the DOS and Windows software for
scanners and similar special-use peripherals was coded up to talk
directly to a specific model of interface card, and would work with
none other.

If you were exceptionally lucky, the vendor would have provided a
higher-level API such as TWAIN, which could run on top of a more
generic hardware-driver interface (e.g. on top of the generic ASPI
interface to SCSI cards that provided such a driver).

If you're stuck... consider dual-booting a Linux distribution.  Linux
has support for all of the popular SCSI interface cards, and the Linux
scanner interface software ("SANE") has back-end drivers for most
popular scanners (SCSI and otherwise).  I'm using an old HP legal-size
flatbed scanner with an Adaptec PCI SCSI interface card... works fine.

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SCSI. "Benderthe.evilrobot" <Benderthe.evilrobot@virginmedia.com> - 2016-11-01 19:55 +0000
  Re: SCSI. dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave Platt) - 2016-11-01 13:24 -0700
    Re: SCSI. "Benderthe.evilrobot" <Benderthe.evilrobot@virginmedia.com> - 2016-11-01 21:18 +0000
      Re: SCSI. dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave Platt) - 2016-11-01 15:20 -0700
        Re: SCSI. "Benderthe.evilrobot" <Benderthe.evilrobot@virginmedia.com> - 2016-11-02 20:32 +0000
          Re: SCSI. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2016-11-03 21:50 +0000
  Re: SCSI. Mark Storkamp <mstorkamp@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-03 08:38 -0500
    Re: SCSI. "Benderthe.evilrobot" <Benderthe.evilrobot@virginmedia.com> - 2016-11-03 19:35 +0000

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