Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What is you take on the software interface? Bill in Denver > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Cochran, > Adam > Sent: Friday, April 06, 2001 3:27 PM > To: 'leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us' > Subject: [Leica] New Digital Scanner Option - NT OS > > > I have a Nikon 4000 ED scanner and initially had problems getting > it to talk > to my computers. One is a Sony Vaio laptop with Windows 98 and > the other a > Dell Dimension desktop running NT. I was told by several people > (Nikon and > our own ITS staff) that NT will not support USB or Firewire. As > the Vaio, I > upgraded to Windows 2000 for the scanner, and it has a Firewire port. > However, after speaking with Nikon techies about segmented images > (Nikon was > quite helpful, by the way) I found out that the Sony Firewire port is not > OHCI compliant, which is necessary for the 4000. At the suggestion of > Nikon, I ordered an OrangeMicro OrangeLink Firewire PCMCIA card (which is > OHCI compliant) and the scanner works perfectly. > > Adam >