Is the Adpatec aha-2490 scsi card suitable for a coolscan ls-1000?

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Hi

I've bought a used ls-1000 at ebay and now i'm in the search of a pci
scsi card. I've found at ebay this model (Adaptec aha-2490):

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/su...US&cat=/Product/AHA-2940UW&prodkey=AHA-2940UW

It also includes a 68 cable and a 68-to-50 pin adaptor and apparently
has drivers for windows xp.


The issue is that i know virtually nothing about the scsi interface.
Can anyone help telling me
if this scsi card gets on well with nikon scanners?

thanks.
 
Adaptec 2940 (and W, UW, etc.) is de-facto standard for SCSI interface.
I'm using it with Canon FS4000 scanner, and works flawlessly. You
should not have any problems.
 
Hi

The issue is that the ls-1000 has a 50 pin connector, while the
external plug of the card is 68-pin.

My question is: the 68-pin cable + the 68-to-50 adaptor is enough to
plug the scanner to the card?

regards
 
Lotas said:
Hi

The issue is that the ls-1000 has a 50 pin connector, while the
external plug of the card is 68-pin.

My question is: the 68-pin cable + the 68-to-50 adaptor is enough to
plug the scanner to the card?

regards
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Hi,

I used a AHA2940 for some years with my ACER SCSI scanner (300S??) after I
moved to a non ISA motherboard and couldn't use its original SCSI card. The
ACER scanner had two 25pin DB25 connectors, and I used a 68pin to 50 pin
adapter (no idea where I got it from) on the aha2940 and a 50pin to DB25
cable to the scanner (ex MacIntosh). And I never bothered with any
terminators. It all worked fine.


Regards
Barry
 
so, if understand what you say, this layout is possible:



68pin SCSI card----->68pin cable------>68-to-50 adapter--->50pin
scanner


Am i right?


regards.
 
Lotas said:
so, if understand what you say, this layout is possible:



68pin SCSI card----->68pin cable------>68-to-50 adapter--->50pin
scanner


Am i right?


regards.
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Yes, it looks ok to me. A "proper" SCSI setup though would have a
terminator at the scanner end if the scanner doesn't provide it.
68pin SCSI card----->68pin cable------>68-to-50 adapter--->50pin
Scanner----->scsi terminator
I didn't need one in my case, so I didn't bother.

Regards
Barry
 
Drivers are available only for windows 98 and older at the nikon
support site. I was never able to get my ls1000 to work and would be
interested in hearing if you get yours to work.
 
Drivers are available only for windows 98 and older at the nikon
support site. I was never able to get my ls1000 to work and would be
interested in hearing if you get yours to work.
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Hi

I managed to get the ls-100 working without problems under win xp pro.
Follow this steps (don't take it amiss if some of the are too obvious
;-)):

- Install the scsi car in a pci slot. In my case my second hand
aha-2490 was
recognized by win xp with no need of drivers - it just happens the
drivers are included in the win xp cd, as with many other adaptec
cards.

- reboot your computer and get inside the scsi card bios (crtl-A in mi
case). Leave all setting as they are (or at least as they should be in
a brand new, unused card) and assing the scsi-id "0" to the card. Save
an reboot.

- Log in win xp as administrator. Download and install adaptec's aspi
layer for win32. It's a simple process, just search for the readme.txt.

- Shutdown computer. Plug the ls-1000 to the scsi card (hd68 pin to c50
pin in my case). Don't forget to attach an active scsi terminator to
the free scanner 50-pin scsi plug.

- Switch up scanner with the computer *turned off*. Wait until scanner
initializes.

- turn on computer. Get inside scsi card bios. Assign scsi id "1" to
scanner and reboot.Leave scanner turned on.

- Log in windows xp as administator. Wait until win xp is aware the
scanner is plugged. You will be asked to connect to windows update to
search & download drivers- click ok, but choosing the "just this time"
option (sorry i use win xp in spanish - it's just a rough translation).

Obvioulsy, you won't get that drivers and the process will end warning
you the "new hardware" may malfunction. However, the scanner works
nicely at this point - vuescan, silverfast, nikonscan. :-)).

As a matter of fact, you even needn't to try to download the drivers -
this step is needed just to avoid winxp to detect "new hardware" each
time you plug the scanner. By the way, always turn on the scanner
before turning on computer and turn off the scanner after the computer.

Hope it helps.
 
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