If a scanner is connected
- If you are using Windows 98 or Windows 98SE, then it is possible to have the characteristics of the scanner displayed:
Please start Tweak UI via Start->Settings->Control Panel->Tweak UI
Within Tweak UI now change to the register card: Control Panel
Now activate the Checkbox for STICPL.CPL. Now you have a new entry in the control panel called Scanner and Cameras
- If you are using a scanner with SCSI interface and a burner with SCSI interface, then you should pay attention to the following:
- If a SCSI hostadapter was supplied with the scanner, then the burner should not be connected to this SCSI hostadapter as these adapters are usually economy versions with too lower data flow. Quite often only a part of the SCSI-command set is implemented and in some cases the adapter doesn't work in compliance with ASPI.
Never attach the burner to the SCSI hostadapter supplied with the scanner.
- Numerous scanners do not work in compliance with ASPI, i.e. the scanner may only be connected to a completely functional SCSI-hostadapter if it complies completely with ASPI. Look this up in the scanner manual. In particular HP scanners (at least HP 5 scanners) cause problems. The newest drivers (Status: July 1999) appear to have sorted this problem out but presumably they don't come free of charge.
- If you are using an external burner and your scanner behaves in compliance with ASPI, then you will probably want to use the scanner on the same cable as the burner. However, as many scanners as a general rule do not have a daisy-chain SCSI-connection, then you will usually have to connect the scanner at the end of the SCSI chain. In this context, please note: The end of a SCSI cable has to be terminated. In this case, between CD Writer and the scanner you have to insert a Pass-Through-Terminator .
- If you are operating a scanner on the parallel port and Windows no longer boots, then please check if the drivers of Seagate Backup Exec are installed as these drivers look for back-up devices on the parallel port and sometimes assume that the scanner is a back-up device. Please check if the driver DRVWPPQT.VXD is in the Windows\System\IOSUBSYS directory. If this is the case, the please rename the file extension to .VX_, i.e. the new name is DRVWPPQT.VX_. Please then restart Windows.
- If you are operating a scanner on a serial port
- If you get the error message tha MSGSRV does not react, then the scanner driver can not find the scanner. It is possible that the InCD drivers are causing the problem: For test purposes please rename the file extension of the driver PTABCD.VXD to .VX_ (can be found in the Windows\System\IOSUBSYS directory) so that the new file name is PTABCD.VX_. Please then restart Windows.