Ancient SCSI scanner under WinXP?

I have a very old SCSI scanner -- an HP ScanJet IIp from 1994, which was
used with an AT 486DX system whose I/O daughterboard appears to have
failed. The SCSI card that was from this system is ISA and there are no
drivers, so there is little hope that I can see that I can make it work
in a working system I have access to.

What I'm wondering is what chance there would be, if I bought a new SCSI
PCI card for my current Windows XP system and plugged this scannner into
it, that I could make it work?

Any thoughts?

Dave

you need to search on the web for xp-drivers of the two components if
they are not already installed .

if you find xp-drivers only for the scanner another xp-supported
scsicard would help . in the case of a existing , propietary scsi-card
another cable will be needed for the new adapter .

In article <MPG.20f0ca417e1cf40a989693@news.west.earthlink.ne t>,
daveh47SPAMGOHOME@mindspring.com says...
> I have a very old SCSI scanner -- an HP ScanJet IIp from 1994, which was
> used with an AT 486DX system whose I/O daughterboard appears to have
> failed. The SCSI card that was from this system is ISA and there are no
> drivers, so there is little hope that I can see that I can make it work
> in a working system I have access to.
>
> What I'm wondering is what chance there would be, if I bought a new SCSI
> PCI card for my current Windows XP system and plugged this scannner into
> it, that I could make it work?
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Dave

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You will need a WinXP driver for the SCSI adapter. You need software for the scanner, not drivers. Any 32 bit software should work, even if it was not designed specifically for WinXP. HP DeskScan II works with my HP Scanjet 3c.

wolfgang schneider wrote:
>
> you need to search on the web for xp-drivers of the two components if
> they are not already installed .
>
> if you find xp-drivers only for the scanner another xp-supported
> scsicard would help . in the case of a existing , propietary scsi-card
> another cable will be needed for the new adapter .
>
> In article <MPG.20f0ca417e1cf40a989693@news.west.earthlink.ne t>,
> daveh47SPAMGOHOME@mindspring.com says...
> > I have a very old SCSI scanner -- an HP ScanJet IIp from 1994, which was
> > used with an AT 486DX system whose I/O daughterboard appears to have
> > failed. The SCSI card that was from this system is ISA and there are no
> > drivers, so there is little hope that I can see that I can make it work
> > in a working system I have access to.
> >
> > What I'm wondering is what chance there would be, if I bought a new SCSI
> > PCI card for my current Windows XP system and plugged this scannner into
> > it, that I could make it work?

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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:14:37 GMT, Dave Hardenbrook
<daveh47SPAMGOHOME@mindspring.com> wrote:

>I have a very old SCSI scanner -- an HP ScanJet IIp from 1994, which was
>used with an AT 486DX system whose I/O daughterboard appears to have
>failed. The SCSI card that was from this system is ISA and there are no
>drivers, so there is little hope that I can see that I can make it work
>in a working system I have access to.
>
>What I'm wondering is what chance there would be, if I bought a new SCSI
>PCI card for my current Windows XP system and plugged this scannner into
>it, that I could make it work?
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Dave

I use an Adaptec 2940 for my (old) HP scanner, IIRC a IIc. No SCSI
drivers needed, the HP drivers for the scanner works well with the
2940 card. No problems at all.

You won't have to look for drivers for most common PCI SCSI adapters. E.g. WinXP automatically installs drivers for Adaptec 2906 and 2940UW adapters.

Mike Walsh wrote:
>
> You will need a WinXP driver for the SCSI adapter. You need software for the scanner, not drivers. Any 32 bit software should work, even if it was not designed specifically for WinXP. HP DeskScan II works with my HP Scanjet 3c.

--
Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.

In article <vkcg839d0op8tperg00m14je00hqo7qt1i@4ax.com>, peter2
@hipson.net says...
> On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:14:37 GMT, Dave Hardenbrook
> <daveh47SPAMGOHOME@mindspring.com> wrote:
>
> >I have a very old SCSI scanner -- an HP ScanJet IIp from 1994, which was
> >used with an AT 486DX system whose I/O daughterboard appears to have
> >failed. The SCSI card that was from this system is ISA and there are no
> >drivers, so there is little hope that I can see that I can make it work
> >in a working system I have access to.
> >
> >What I'm wondering is what chance there would be, if I bought a new SCSI
> >PCI card for my current Windows XP system and plugged this scannner into
> >it, that I could make it work?
> >
> >Any thoughts?
> >
> >Dave
>
> I use an Adaptec 2940 for my (old) HP scanner, IIRC a IIc. No SCSI
> drivers needed, the HP drivers for the scanner works well with the
> 2940 card. No problems at all.

I run HP IIcx on XP, Adaptec 2930.
XP had the Adaptec driver.
I use the old HP DeskScan software (VueScan works with it also).
You just have to add ASPI drivers as XP does NOT have that; had to use
ForceASPI as the latest one from Adaptec would not install correctly.

MM