One scanner shows up as 7 scanners

[toronado455]

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).

 

[DatabaseBen]

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?

 

[toronado455]

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.

 

[Rock]

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).

Are you unplugging it from the computer then plugging back in?

 

[toronado455]

Are you unplugging it from the computer then plugging back in?

No. It's an old SCSI scanner. Not USB.

 

[V Green]

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.

 

[toronado455]

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?

 

[V Green]

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?

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...