Need Help Installing ATA 2906 SCSI

[Robert Heiling]

I re-installed vista355. Device manager had the following BEFORE I
installed vista355:

I must not be communicating very well. The idea was to see if it gave you an
*uninstall* option. Some of those setup packages occasionally do. No harm done
though as I mentioned.

Imaging Devices
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX Powerlook II

SCSI and RAID controllers
Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI Controller
VAXSCSI Controller

DEVICE MANAGER'S SCANNERS AND CAMERAS
Nothing

And of course the ever-present 'New Hardware Wizard' window is present
and un removable for UMAX Powerlook II.

AFTER I installed vista355:

Identical, but Vistascan was added to 'installed programs'. I find no
way to execute it however. It is not in Start>All Programs.

On my system it appears under Start-> Programs-> Vistascan with a menu of
several possibilities including a utility and manual among other choices.

I found AEC671.sys among windows inf's. I deleted it.

I don't know what that is/was or what it has to do with all this. It's generally
a good idea to rename unwanted files rather than deleting them as they are
easily recovered then by renaming back in case an error was made.

I found all of the Powerlook drivers above in the Registry, but it
won't let me delete any of them (says there is an error).

I should add that MagicScan is out of the picture and NOT installed.

Ok. Magicscan & Vistascan are at the same level and at a separate level from
your scsi driver. Magicscan & Vistascan aren't necessarily mutually exclusive,
but it's best to look at it that way until you get things working. What I mean
by that is that your scsi card installation:
SCSI and RAID controllers
Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI Controller
VAXSCSI Controller

looks just fine to me and no change needs to be made to that pci scsi card
installation! It's worth noting that you wouldn't be prompted to install the
scanner if that scsi card wasn't working.

Since you say that you've managed to get rid of Magicscan and have Vistascan
installed now instead, then let's stick with Vistascan. Have you run aspichk.exe
like we did before? or looked at twain.log?

Is the scanner still actually working right now? and it is "working" to my mind
only if you can use it from within your imaging software to scan a picture or
document to create an image file like a .jpg file.

Bob

 

[geezer]

I must not be communicating very well. The idea was to see if it gave you an
*uninstall* option. Some of those setup packages occasionally do. No harm done
though as I mentioned.


On my system it appears under Start-> Programs-> Vistascan with a menu of
several possibilities including a utility and manual among other choices.


I don't know what that is/was or what it has to do with all this. It's generally
a good idea to rename unwanted files rather than deleting them as they are
easily recovered then by renaming back in case an error was made.


Ok. Magicscan & Vistascan are at the same level and at a separate level from
your scsi driver. Magicscan & Vistascan aren't necessarily mutually exclusive,
but it's best to look at it that way until you get things working. What I mean
by that is that your scsi card installation:
SCSI and RAID controllers
Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI Controller
VAXSCSI Controller

looks just fine to me and no change needs to be made to that pci scsi card
installation! It's worth noting that you wouldn't be prompted to install the
scanner if that scsi card wasn't working.

Since you say that you've managed to get rid of Magicscan and have Vistascan
installed now instead, then let's stick with Vistascan. Have you run aspichk.exe
like we did before? or looked at twain.log?

My error. I uninstalled Magicscan and thought I re-installed
Vistascan. At that point (this AM) the scanner was not working, and
had nothing under Device Manager's scanners and cameras as I said.
What happened was I used 'vs355.exe', and didn't get much. I just
tried 'vistscan355' and got a successful re-install of Vistascan.

At this point, the scanner works, but (1) I still have the
ever-present 'new hardware wizard' window and (2) although the scanner
seems to be working okay, there still are no entries under Device
Manager's scanners and cameras. Makes me wonder some.
When I say the scanner works, I mean when I execute Vistascan under
'Start>All Programs', the scanner scans a picture correctly, as it
should. Whether Magicscan would, I don't know.

I still have a mess under Imaging Devices, thus:

UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX Powerlook II
UMAX Powerlook II

Is the scanner still actually working right now? and it is "working" to my mind
only if you can use it from within your imaging software to scan a picture or
document to create an image file like a .jpg file.

Bob

Somehow, I have to clean up Device Manager and get rid of the 'wizard'
window. I can't even x-out of the latter. It just comes right back.

Thanks

Geezer

 

[geezer]

That's not very convincing unless you have pulled the results of that scan into
an image viewer. For all you know, it's just making some mechanical noises and
going thru the motions.

Fair enough. I reran Vistscan and save the image as tmp4.tif, which I
then opened in IRFANVIEW. Picture looked just fine.

I've got some ideas on that but you didn't even respond to my aspichk questions
and others. It's too difficult trying to help long distance when you have to
look thru someone else's eyes. Think I need to take a break.

Think I do too. I agree with what you say. I appreciate your trying
to help.

ASPICHK says ASPI is not properly installed. I'm not surprised at
that. ASPICHK shows 4 modules:
WINASPI32.DLL
WINASPI.DLL
ASPI32.SYS
WOWPOST.EXE

VERSION DATE & SIZE ALL SHOWS 'n/a'.

BTW - I impatiently installed and tried Magicscan. It fails - can't
find the scanner. Vistascan still works as described before.

Thanks again
You're in my will.

Geezer

 

[Robert Heiling]

My error. I uninstalled Magicscan and thought I re-installed
Vistascan. At that point (this AM) the scanner was not working, and
had nothing under Device Manager's scanners and cameras as I said.
What happened was I used 'vs355.exe', and didn't get much. I just
tried 'vistscan355' and got a successful re-install of Vistascan.

At this point, the scanner works, but (1) I still have the
ever-present 'new hardware wizard' window and (2) although the scanner
seems to be working okay, there still are no entries under Device
Manager's scanners and cameras. Makes me wonder some.
When I say the scanner works, I mean when I execute Vistascan under
'Start>All Programs', the scanner scans a picture correctly, as it
should.

That's not very convincing unless you have pulled the results of that scan into
an image viewer. For all you know, it's just making some mechanical noises and
going thru the motions.

Whether Magicscan would, I don't know.

I still have a mess under Imaging Devices, thus:

UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX PL-II SCSI Scanner Device
UMAX Powerlook II
UMAX Powerlook II


Somehow, I have to clean up Device Manager and get rid of the 'wizard'
window. I can't even x-out of the latter. It just comes right back.

I've got some ideas on that but you didn't even respond to my aspichk questions
and others. It's too difficult trying to help long distance when you have to
look thru someone else's eyes. Think I need to take a break.

Bob