Agfa Snapscan 310 won't work
Steven Driesen
Hi all,
I just bought an Agfa Snapscan 310 SCSI. I installed the supplied SCSI
adapter card and
connected the scanner to it. When I started my system, the card was seen by
my BIOS.
Then Windows95 also saw the new card and installed the drivers for it. Then
Windows95
said it saw an unknown device. I could not install any drivers for it. I
then manualy installed
the new hardware using the Win95 control panel. Now both the scanner and
SCSI adapter
are shown correctly in the Device Manager Window, but I still can't use the
scanner.
When I check the SCSI bus using the SCSI Interogator tool, it does not
report any device
attached to SCSI ID 2 (which is selected on the scanner). It does show my
CD-ROM and CD-RW
drive, which are both IDE device, on SCSI ID 0 and 1 !!!???
I wonder whether the scanner needs to be terminated. It has two 25-pin
connectors on the back.
One with the symbol of a computer and one with the symbol of a printer. The
manual isn't
very clear about this. On one page it says the scanner is terminated, on the
next it reads it isn't.
If anybody knows the sollution to my problem, please reply via e-mail. I
want to use
my new toy.
Thanks in advance,
Steven
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Reiner HD
It seems to me that you did not install Fotolook/Fotosnap (the scanner
driver) or ASPI.
As described in the documentation you must do the following steps
- insert adapter an connect scanner (switch it on before booting the
machine)
- Win95 will detect the card -> install the driver
- Win95 will detect an unknown device -> insert the Fotolook-CD and enter
the path to the dummy-driver (I dont remember..., you find it in the docu).
This dummy-driver is not the real scanner driver but only a file to satisfy
Win95's request for a driver.
- Install Win-ASPI-Layer
- Install Fotolook or Fotosnap
- If you want, install IPhotoExpress, Paperport, and OmniPage LE
The scanner is not terminated, but does not have to, as long as you use the
short cable which came with the scanner.
Hope this helps...
Reiner.
Steven Driesen wrote in message <6mp3kr$8...@news3.euro.net>...
Richard Wintjen
All SCSI chains must be terminated, this is the design of the bus. The
terminator is attached after the last device in the chain, and may be
internal to the device. Internal terminators should be switchable, in
case the device is not the last in a chain. If there is no reference to
a terminator enable/disable switch, you probably need an external one
(which should have come with the scanner - passive ones are fairly
cheap!).
Steve Taylor
Just a thought...
This may be obvious to you. It confused me, when I was setting up my
Snapscan 310 a few weeks ago, being new to scanners.
Make sure that the slider switch underneath the scanner is moved fully to
the right, observing the instructions which came which the scanner. There
was a card attached to the switch on a string which came with mine.
It is possible to move this switch over apparantly correctly but without
actually enabling the scanner properly. Thus it might not be recognized on
the SCSI bus.
You will see the green light glow steadily, not flash on and off, when this
happens.
Hope this helps.
Steve Taylor