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I need to hook up an old hp-4p scsi scanner to a PCI card so I can use a newer
mobo with no ISA slots.
The scanner is currently working fine on a little itty-bitty ISA card. The plug
at the computer end is a 25 pin port that looks like a parallel port.
Confusion arises when I try to figure out what I need. My searches indicate
that an Adaptec 2940 will be OK, but I don't know what cable to get?
A local dude is selling a Adaptec 2930u for cheap
<http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodke y=AHA-2930CU&cat=%2fTechnology%2fSCSI+(Desktop)%2fSCSI+C onnections+for+PCs>
Will that be OK?
It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't need a legal size flatbed. :-/
Also , this thing just won't die.
So how do I get this thing working on a PCI card?
signed,
Confused About Cables.
(Shel-hed)

Shel-hed wrote:
> I need to hook up an old hp-4p scsi scanner to a PCI card so I can use a newer
> mobo with no ISA slots.
> The scanner is currently working fine on a little itty-bitty ISA card. The plug
> at the computer end is a 25 pin port that looks like a parallel port.
> Confusion arises when I try to figure out what I need. My searches indicate
> that an Adaptec 2940 will be OK, but I don't know what cable to get?
> A local dude is selling a Adaptec 2930u for cheap
> <http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/proddetail.html?sess=no&language=English+US&prodke y=AHA-2930CU&cat=%2fTechnology%2fSCSI+(Desktop)%2fSCSI+C onnections+for+PCs>
> Will that be OK?
> It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't need a legal size flatbed. :-/
> Also , this thing just won't die.
> So how do I get this thing working on a PCI card?
> signed,
> Confused About Cables.
> (Shel-hed)

I retired my 4P when I could no longer figger out how to get it to work
in Win98, it was designed for Win 3.1 if I remember. Maybe it was Win95.
If you'll send me the postage, I'll ship it to you. Don't know if years
of sitting there has killed it or not. Paid about $1000 for it. Not that
this helps with your current problem. Do you think I ramble on too much?

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:43:45 -0400, Rôgêr <> wrote:

>
>I retired my 4P when I could no longer figger out how to get it to work
>in Win98, it was designed for Win 3.1 if I remember. Maybe it was Win95.
>If you'll send me the postage, I'll ship it to you. Don't know if years
>of sitting there has killed it or not. Paid about $1000 for it. Not that
>this helps with your current problem. Do you think I ramble on too much?

Yes, you ramble too much. If you need a basic scanner, then the 4P is still
fine. I have it working on 98se. If you are desperate, I'll send you copies of
the floppies. There is a bit of a trick to avoid installing Paperport, but no
biggie.
My seeester paid about $900 for this thing. I traded her for a Filter Queen
vacuum.. WTF does a guy need a vacuum for, eh?!

Shel-hed wrote:

> Yes, you ramble too much. If you need a basic scanner, then the 4P is still
> fine. I have it working on 98se. If you are desperate, I'll send you copies of
> the floppies. There is a bit of a trick to avoid installing Paperport, but no
> biggie.
> My seeester paid about $900 for this thing. I traded her for a Filter Queen
> vacuum.. WTF does a guy need a vacuum for, eh?!

Oh, I did some tricks and fooled it into working in Win98 for a while.
But then one foul day, I pulled the ISA card out of the slot to test
another card, didn't work, put everything back like it was, the scanner
never worked again. Damn nice scanner, I have to admit.

Shel-hed wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:43:45 -0400, Rôgêr <> wrote:
>
>
>>I retired my 4P when I could no longer figger out how to get it to work
>>in Win98, it was designed for Win 3.1 if I remember. Maybe it was Win95.
>>If you'll send me the postage, I'll ship it to you. Don't know if years
>>of sitting there has killed it or not. Paid about $1000 for it. Not that
>>this helps with your current problem. Do you think I ramble on too much?
>
>
> Yes, you ramble too much. If you need a basic scanner, then the 4P is still
> fine. I have it working on 98se. If you are desperate, I'll send you copies of
> the floppies. There is a bit of a trick to avoid installing Paperport, but no
> biggie.
> My seeester paid about $900 for this thing. I traded her for a Filter Queen
> vacuum.. WTF does a guy need a vacuum for, eh?!

Something didn't seem right, so I checked. I've got the 4C, not 4P.
Anyhow, I'm not desperate, I've got an HP scanner with better specs,
uses USB cord, and cost me about $119 two or three years ago. And it
weighs about 35 lbs less.

As for needing a vacuum, other than a sex appliance I can't understand
anyone wanting one.

Rôgêr wrote:

> Shel-hed wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:43:45 -0400, Rôgêr <> wrote:
>>
>> <snip>
>
>
>
> As for needing a vacuum, other than a sex appliance I can't understand
> anyone wanting one.

What else would you want to use it for? Women don't stir martinis with
their vibrators...or, ...

Voltado wrote:
> Rôgêr wrote:
>
>> Shel-hed wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:43:45 -0400, Rôgêr <> wrote:
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As for needing a vacuum, other than a sex appliance I can't understand
>> anyone wanting one.
>
>
> What else would you want to use it for? Women don't stir martinis with
> their vibrators...or, ...

You never met my second wife, eh?
--
I have terrible taste in women. So to speak.

"Rôgêr" <> wrote in message
news:KuednSCWsOoQlm7fRVn-...
> Voltado wrote:
>> Rôgêr wrote:
>>
>>> Shel-hed wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 00:43:45 -0400, Rôgêr <>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As for needing a vacuum, other than a sex appliance I can't
>>> understand anyone wanting one.
>>
>>
>> What else would you want to use it for? Women don't stir martinis
>> with their vibrators...or, ...
>
> You never met my second wife, eh?
>
> I have terrible taste in women. So to speak.

I had a jacuzzi installed.
--
Licked that problem.