One scanner shows up as 7 scanners

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I'm using an Epson Perfection 600. It works with XP somehow. But it
shows up in "My Computer" under "Scanners and Cameras"seven times
(Epson Perfection 600, Epson Perfection 600 #2, Epson Perfection 600
#3...Epson Perfection 600 #7).
 
hmm, somehow it works
and somehow it reporting crazy things~~~
could be an incompatible twain
it sounds like an Epson specific problem...
what do the Epson people say?
 
Epson doesn't support it under anything after Win95. I'm using a hacked
umax.inf file to make it work. (Apparently the Epson Perfection 600 is
a Umax clone.) Device manager shows yellow question mark and "no
driver". But somehow it works with the built-in XP scan wizard anyway.
 
toronado455 said:
I'm using an Epson Perfection 600. It works with XP somehow. But it
shows up in "My Computer" under "Scanners and Cameras"seven times
(Epson Perfection 600, Epson Perfection 600 #2, Epson Perfection 600
#3...Epson Perfection 600 #7).
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Are you unplugging it from the computer then plugging back in?
 
This very same thing happened with my old
ScanJet. It worked fine for years, never did
find out what all the instances were. I suspect
it had to do with the SCSI device chain (device
ID's) - old slow SCSI cards usually support
up to 7 devices.
 
So it's a case of a single SCSI device occupying all 7 SCSI ID #s then?
I have the scanner set to ID #1. I wonder if changing that setting
would make any difference?
 
toronado455 said:
So it's a case of a single SCSI device occupying all 7 SCSI ID #s then?
I have the scanner set to ID #1. I wonder if changing that setting
would make any difference?
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Actually, I think it has more to do with HP's driver
than the SCSI card/driver. I also had a SCSI CD-R
drive at the time, as I remember, it took one ID and
the ScanJet took the rest. It's been awhile...
 
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