I bought a new laptop but have an old umax scanner. Previously I used a PCMCIA SCSI card to hookup that scanner. My new laptop has expresscard. What is the easiest way to hookup the old scanner? I tried to used the old laptop the other day until I had time to look into how to do it with the new laptop and found it no longer boots. Dennis Payne dulsi@identicalsoftware.com
Have you consitered a USB to SCSI adapter? On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:10 PM, dulsi@identicalsoftware.com wrote:
I bought a new laptop but have an old umax scanner. Previously I used a PCMCIA SCSI card to hookup that scanner. My new laptop has expresscard. What is the easiest way to hookup the old scanner? I tried to used the old laptop the other day until I had time to look into how to do it with the new laptop and found it no longer boots.
Dennis Payne dulsi@identicalsoftware.com
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On Aug 11, 2009, at 10:10 PM, dulsi@identicalsoftware.com wrote: I bought a new laptop but have an old umax scanner. Previously I used a PCMCIA SCSI card to hookup that scanner. My new laptop has expresscard. What is the easiest way to hookup the old scanner? I tried to used the old laptop the other day until I had time to look into how to do it with the new laptop and found it no longer boots.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:56:13AM -0400, Alex Camilo wrote:
Have you consitered a USB to SCSI adapter?
It seems that for about the same price as an adapter, you can buy a whole new USB scanner.
Quoting "Chuck Anderson" <cra@WPI.EDU>:
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 01:56:13AM -0400, Alex Camilo wrote:
Have you consitered a USB to SCSI adapter?
I haven't found much in way of information about them. Will they work with a scanner? They seem geared for connecting SCSI drives. As Chuck has mentioned the few I've seen are rather expensive: http://www.usbgear.net/USB_SCSI_adapters.html
It seems that for about the same price as an adapter, you can buy a whole new USB scanner.
Any recommendations for cheap and well supported usb scanner? Dennis Payne dulsi@identicalsoftware.com
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