[Leica] SCSI card for scanner

[leowesson at charter.net (leo)]

Peter,

I have 2 scsi cards that i am not using, an adeptec 2906 and a grappler 
930U.  Email me off list if you want one.

Leo


On Apr 4, 2005, at 12:03 PM, Peter Klein wrote:

> Folks:  I recently bought my work computer when it came off lease.  The
> old ISA SCSI card I've been using won't work, because my "new" PC has 
> PCI
> slots only.  Which means that I'm going to have to find a new method to
> connect my Canon FS-4000 film scanner to the computer.
>
> I ran the scanner on USB this weekend, and it is significantly slower 
> than
> before.  It takes about 8.5 minutes for a 4000 dpi scan with IR 
> cleaning
> (Vuescan).  On the old machine, with SCSI, it was more like 6.5 minutes
> for the same task. Unfortunately the scanner is USB 1.1, not 2.  So 
> even
> though I have USB 2 slots, it does me no good for the scanner.
>
> After some research, the economical alternatives are:
>
> 1. Buy an Adaptec 2930 SCSI card ($99 new, about $20 on that auction
> site).
>
> 2. Buy a Startek PCISCSI2 card ($41 at CompUSA. 10 mbps, as opposed to 
> 20
> mbps for the Adaptec. I don't know if this will make any difference 
> with
> the scanner).
>
> 3. Buy a SCSI to USB-2 adapter.  Adaptec makes one for $80.
>
> Does anyone have experience with the latter 2 options?  If the Startek
> card is as good as the Adaptec for the scanner, it might be worth not
> having to deal with the auction site.
>
> Also, does anyone know how to tell the difference between an Adaptec 
> 2930
> PCI card for the PC as opposed to one for the Mac, if the seller has no
> box and doesn't know which system it came from?  :-)
>
> Thanks,
> --Peter
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