Re: scanners: usb adapter

["John J. Boyer" <director chpi org>]

Cheryl,
If you get an SCSI scanner, be sure to get the SCSI card supplied by the
scanner vendor. We have never been able to get an SCSI scanner to work
with a generic SCSI card.
John
On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Gil Andre wrote:

>
> Cheryl,
>
> Sorry but ISA to USB does not exist. ISA is simply too old,
> and all the adapters I have seen are PCI to USB. I am not
> even sure that ISA has enough bandwidth to be able to manage
> USB speed.
>
> So, one solution is the PCI to USB card -- but I am not sure
> that can be managed by Linux. There are a lot of drivers for
> Windows, of course, but I guess that's out of the equation...
>
> I think the best solution for you would be to buy a cheap
> SCSI card for your PCI bus, and plug an SCSI scanner into
> it. I know Adaptec now makes pretty cheap and adequate
> SCSI cards -- and most Linux distributions manage SCSI very
> well.
>
> Finding a SCSI scanner may take you a little bit more time,
> but the price should be roughly equal to the USB version,
> and you'll probably have less trouble making it work with
> Linux.
>
> If you don't want to upgrade your motherboard, the SCSI
> solution seems the best.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:26:58 -0600 (CST), Cheryl wrote:
> > I don't want to replace my motherboard, but can one get
> > a usb adapter for an isa slot? Would linux support this
> > and does anybody know how expensive that would be as
> > opposed to a motherboard?
> > Thanks.
>
>
>

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