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PROBLEM 1

I need some help from anyone who has tried to get the following two
peripherals to work on an ISA bus (486-33 or 486 DX2-66).

1) Wangtek 1550 EQ 150 MB Tape Drive + PC-02 Controller Card
2) Dest PC Scan Plus Scanner + Its own "SCSI" card

I have had nearly a weak of sleepless nights (and days) tryig to get
these two to work in a PC. 

The tape drive has ben installed with I/O address of 288H, DRQ 3 & DACQ 3 
and IRQ 2. Uisng SYTOS PLUS, the system sees the streamer, will retension
the tape, but when it comes to writing the volume, there's a brief chug &
then the system just stops. Playig around with IRQs and DMAs (DRQ??) seem
to make little difference (ensuring of course that the softare and card
are always changing to match ach other). I have tried several I/Os but not
the *whole* range. Has anyone managed to install one of these devices on
a 486 machine? (I'v done it on 386s in the past). IF so, can you tell me
if you had any problems, and what settings you settled for. Please e-mail
me rather than newsgroup.

The Dest PC Scan Plus is of 1988 vintage. It is supported by its own 
"SCSI" card which allows you to set IRQ=None, DMA 1,2 or 3 and a range
of I/O memory addresses (much like the above PC-02 card). The driver
software is old. Imageinf.sys, Imageinf.exe and Scandrvr.sys.  
Again, with setttings IRQ=none, address 270H and DMA 3, I can't get 
the scanner to succesfully download the drivers (If anyone has new ones
please e-mail me them as UUencoded files).

Both devices are connnected to the PC properly, both power up and respond
to a PC power on reset.

I'd *REALLY* like to hear some suggested solutions.......


MAJOR PUZZLING PROBLEM 2!

As a second - Today I decided to try my second DEST scanner, a PC Scan 3000
with almost proper SCSI card (unlike the DEST PC Plus, it has a real SCSI
socket on the back of the card and a proper pair of SCSI connectors on the
back of the scanner.

On putting the card into the PC (P24T-S based), and loading a driver which
I know works, the scanner started to blink its lights at me. Yellow and
green and no comforting hum-click as the PC is powered on.

So, I took the card out and checked the connections, and..ermmm it happens
even when the card is out of the PC. If I disconnect the cable from the
card, the scanner humms and clicks as it's supposed to. So, I plugged the
cable into a COREL LS2000 and the scanner didn't like that either. In fact
it doesn't seem to like anything at the end of its cable anymore 8-<

The error code is C which according to the old manual (Dest PC Scan Plus)
it is a parity error.....

Can anyone tell me what's going on?? This is driving me mad! I need to 
discuss this with someone who knows something about DEST Scanners.

-- 
David Longley