MFS-8000SP Driver for XP

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John H. Thompson

Anyone seen a driver for an old Mustek MFS-8000SP Flatbed scanner that will
allow it to work on XP?

Thanks
 
John said:
Anyone seen a driver for an old Mustek MFS-8000SP Flatbed scanner that will
allow it to work on XP?

Thanks
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The Mustek site has several driver upgrades for XP. I don't know
about your model. The caveat here is that the driver upgrade may
be one for Win2000 which you then need to patch up to XP. (eg:
you DL the Win2000 ver. and then DL the patch to transform it to
an XP version. Strange, but works (did for my 1200 III EP.)
 
I think Mustek considers this a dead line of scanners. I had to ditch
my 8000SP a couple of years ago when I built a new computer with a
motherboard that had no ISA slot. My scanner used a proprietary ISA
SCSI card, and I tried an Adaptec PCI SCSI card that the Mustek site
implied 'might' work, but I never got it to communicate. Too bad,
because I really liked the 14" bed, but if you can live with 11, the
good news is that there are many much cheaper, much more advanced units
available today.
 
Thanks to Alan and Mike for replying to my question. Looks like its time
for a new one. JT
 
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