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Hi.  Scsi connectors for the scanner's cable
are usually made with the MacIntosh computer
in mind?  The Mac has a 25 pin SCSI connector
that appears the same as a parallel printer 
port (female 25-pin).  

Fast SCSI-2 controllers
usually have a very small 50-pin "Honda"
connector that has small lock-on fastener clamps.
This kind is on the Adaptec AHA-2842VL.  

Larger 50-pin Centronics connectors can be found 
on the Adaptec AHA-154xB and C and on the 
AHA-152X adaptors.  These might be what you have?

All that may be necessary to connect to your
scanner is a 50-pin Centronics to 50-pin to
Centronics cable (or similar) that would
take the 50-pin Centronics connector of
your SCSI adaptor and connect it to the 
50-Pin Centronics connector of your Scanner.

The HP ScanJet IIcx that I have can be
connected to my AHA-1542C when used with
the Adaptec ASPI manager driver and HP's
own Real-mode Dos driver that interacts
with the ASPI layer driver.  I also
make sure that it has a unique SCSI
address.

SCSI termination is important.  Make sure
that each extreme end of your SCSI
bus is terminated.

I have just discovered that some
OCR software does not recognize
my scanner when 32-bit only drivers
are used to drive my scanner.  I must
load some drivers in both Config.sys
in Win95 and have the GUI Win95
32-bit drivers operate the scanner
for it to work with all software.
Only HP's scan software works with
only 32-bit drivers installed, and
I must have my scanner powered on
when the Win95 GUI boots up or the
scanner is not recognized.  The
32-bit drivers are configured via
Scanner Manager 2.0 or some such
for the software that uses the
Real-mode Config.sys drivers of
the scanner.

Nothing is ever easy.

Hope this helps.  Regards, C.

> Subject:      Trust scanners and WIN 95
> From:         Roger Thijs <rthijs@innet.be>
> Date:         1996/06/09
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> I'm looking for help for:
> 1. Installing a scanner
> 2. Reinstalling Win 3.11 over Win 95
> 
> 1. Installing scanner
> This week I bought at Macro Deurne (Antwerp)
> a "Trust Aashima 9600 dpi" flat bed scanner
> for BF 19.990 (= US $ 650 = Hfl 1000).
> On the box, it gives:
> "Designed for Windows 95".
> 
> Though:
> 
> a - Running the driver disk "Imagery series":
> it does not create the "scanner" folder in WIN 95,
> as expected and announced in the booklet.
> 
> The booklet is for win 3.11.
> (I reinstalled win 3.11 for making it work
> - see problems below though -
> and finally got a "scanner" group there
> in the Win 3.11 Program manager).
> 
> The driver installed is just a SCSI card driver,
> but does not allow to scan directly.
> The SCSI controll box gives OK for ID 4.
> 
> (I had to install the suplied SCSI card,
> although I had a SCSI connector free
> on my Adaptec HD controller card, but unfortunately
> their SCSI cable is not designed for a normal SCSI
> connection at the PC side, but has a small connector
> for their dedicated card)
> 
> b - I couldn't really scan though,
> since the software supplied does not contain
> any simple picture scanning program.
> Gadgets supplied are:
> - ImagePals 2 for editing pictures from
> the omnipage CDROM
> - OmniPage 4.0 for OCR recognition
> (no picture saving)
> 
> c - The "Trust Aashima" booklet with the driver discette
> refers to Adobe Photoshop when explaining
> how to scan pictures.
> So I guess I have to buy that first
> for seeing if my scanner works or not.
> 
> d - In the documentation Aashima has no street address,
> no telephone nor fax number, just a post-box:
> Postbus 3123, Nl 2130 Hoofddorp.
> 
> e - Can anybody pse tell me:
> 
> - Are there WIN95 drivers available for the
> Trust Aashima 9600 dpi flat bed scanner?
> 
> - Does this cy have a street address and
> tel / fax / BBS numbers?
> 
> - Is there any scan software allowing me
> to scan a picture with this scanner, without me being
> forced to buy Adobe Photoshop?
> 
> 2. Reinstalling windows 3.11 over win 95.
> 
> a - For testing my scanner, that has only a win 3.11
> SCSI driver, I had to reinstall win 3.11.
> 
> (I had an other reason for reinstalling win 3.11:
> I have a very nice CDROM "The Anglo-Saxons"
> from Cambrix, that I cannot reinstall under WIN 95,
> since the installation program is:
> - a win 3.11 *.rec file
> - requires the country being preset to US
> - and requires the keybord being set to Querty;
> I live in Belgium, my keybord is Azerty,
> that disturbs the *.rec procedure in win 3.11;
> it doesn't work at all under win 95)
> 
> b - when starting the only thing to be installed,
> i.e. the driver for the dedicated SCSI card,
> I got "Cannot find winaspi.dll".
> I copied winaspi.dll from the c:\windows\system win 95
> directory into my win 3.11 directory h:\win311\system.
> 
> Then I finally could run the SCSI test (was OK).
> 
> c - since the win 3.11 did not automatically install
> a driver for my CD-ROM, and since my CD ROM is controlled
> using a SB AWE 32 card, I tried to install for win 3.11
> my SB AWE 32 drivers.
> 
> The installation couldn't go on:
> I get "Not enough conventional memory"
> for running the install program.
> Removing autoexec.bat and config.sys didn't help.
> The win 3.11 installation was a bare bone one,
> without including any applications,
> other than the SCSI driver, just installed before.
> 
> d - Above, I started my WIN 3.11 after pressing F8
> when booting, for preventing WIN95 to start.
> 
> e - When I start WIN95 first, quit it for DOS,
> and try to start WIN 3.11 from the DOS prompt
> I get "Windows protection error #06".
> 
> f - Question:
> 
> Is there a proper procedure for (re)installing WIN 3.11
> after WIN 95 is intalled first, without the troubles,
> discribed above?
> 
> Thanks for all help,
> 
> Roger
> 
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