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Geoffrey Peters wrote:

> We've struck a bit of an odd one ...
>
> Our school has just purchased an Astra 610S scanner, but try as we might
> we cannot get our G3 desktop Mac to recognise it.
>

I don't know if this will help you - but last year our school purchased one
of these scanners too - and it would not be recognized by a Powermac 5260.
It worked fine with a Dos machine with a SCSI card. Umax tech support
suggested the cable may be  faulty - so I swapped the SCSI cable with one
from an older scanner - and hey presto it worked (and the Astra scanner
cable worked with the older scanner too!)

Dave Noble

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Have you tried setting a different SCSI number for the scanner. At the back
of the scanner trun the SCSI number to a different setting.

I have a Astra 1220S with a G3 and it conflicted with the HD, until I
changed the SCSI numbers.

Launching VISTA-SCAN should them auto. mount the scanner.

Hope this helps

Geoffrey Peters wrote:

> We've struck a bit of an odd one ...
>
> Our school has just purchased an Astra 610S scanner, but try as we might
> we cannot get our G3 desktop Mac to recognise it.
>
> A friend had had similar problems with his UMAX Vista on his 8500, and
> we got it working by installing the UMAX drivers from OmniPage 8 and
> reselecting the new driver from the chooser. Alas, this trick doesn't
> seem to work with the G3 (running OS 8.1).
>
> Any suggestions, kind net.wizards?
>
> Geoffrey


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Just a generic SCSI tip, use SCSI Probe to find out if the scanner is seen
on the SCSI bus.  If you see it, then there is probably something not right
with the software.  If you don't see it, probably the cable or some other
hardware.

Cheers


Greg

In article <1daczi6.6wboca1g84ol8N@ws50.pulteney.sa.edu.au> ,
geoff@auslink.net (Geoffrey Peters) wrote:

>We've struck a bit of an odd one ...
>
>Our school has just purchased an Astra 610S scanner, but try as we might
>we cannot get our G3 desktop Mac to recognise it.
>
>A friend had had similar problems with his UMAX Vista on his 8500, and
>we got it working by installing the UMAX drivers from OmniPage 8 and
>reselecting the new driver from the chooser. Alas, this trick doesn't
>seem to work with the G3 (running OS 8.1).
>
>Any suggestions, kind net.wizards?
>
>
>Geoffrey

Not necessarily related (unless you have multiple devices in your SCSI
chain), but I have an 600s, and it was just about useless unless it was the
only device connected. I'm not sure how I stumbled across it, but the
following link:

http://www.chipmunk.nl/astraterminator.html

held the solution to my problem. By Default 'termination power' is not
enabled (one of the pins on the scsi cable carries power which is used by
the terminator). There is a quick mod (described step-by-step) you can do to
fix this; it involves changing a jumper on the scanner motherboard. I
realise that this is a warranty-voiding operation, but I was so exasperated
by the lack of system stability with the scanner connected that I did the
mod, and the scanner has been flawless since.

anyway, FWIW, it may or may not be relevant to the 610s.
cheers,
Hugh


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