anyone know how to get scsi scanners to work with x64

I have managed to get my SCSI card working but I can't load an ASPI layer to
get the scanners to work has anyone managed to find a way of getting them to
work as I have a pair of very high quality scanners that I really would like
to get back working
Any ideas???
Many thanks in advance
Rob

Tony
Sat Dec 30 16:39:47 CST 2006

You will need to have 64bit drivers for those scanners, not just for the
SCSI Card! I guess that should do it?


Tony. . .


"miroku800" <miroku800@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have managed to get my SCSI card working but I can't load an ASPI layer
to
> get the scanners to work has anyone managed to find a way of getting them
to
> work as I have a pair of very high quality scanners that I really would
like
> to get back working
> Any ideas???
> Many thanks in advance
> Rob

Aaron
Sat Dec 30 22:57:30 CST 2006

Yeah, and if they're old scanners, you might be out of luck there.

Vuescan loads generic drivers for Windows and has its own interface to a lot
of scanners, it might be able to work with them...

http://www.hamrick.com/

Supported scanners:
http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported

- Aaron

"Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
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> You will need to have 64bit drivers for those scanners, not just for the
> SCSI Card! I guess that should do it?
>
>
> Tony. . .
>
>
> "miroku800" <miroku800@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0F1B1A5A-7886-468F-B496-AD138A214331@microsoft.com...
>> I have managed to get my SCSI card working but I can't load an ASPI layer
> to
>> get the scanners to work has anyone managed to find a way of getting them
> to
>> work as I have a pair of very high quality scanners that I really would
> like
>> to get back working
>> Any ideas???
>> Many thanks in advance
>> Rob
>
>

miroku800
Sun Dec 31 08:39:00 CST 2006

unfortunately I can't get as far as loading the scanner drivers as I need an
ASPI layer first and the version from Adaptec won't unpack on the X64
machine, has anyone come across an ASPI layer from another manufacturer that
will unpack

"Aaron Kelley" wrote:

> Yeah, and if they're old scanners, you might be out of luck there.
>
> Vuescan loads generic drivers for Windows and has its own interface to a lot
> of scanners, it might be able to work with them...
>
> http://www.hamrick.com/
>
> Supported scanners:
> http://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/vuescan.htm#supported
>
> - Aaron
>
> "Tony Sperling" <tony.sperling@dbREMOVEmail.dk> wrote in message
> news:e8IG8NGLHHA.2232@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> > You will need to have 64bit drivers for those scanners, not just for the
> > SCSI Card! I guess that should do it?
> >
> >
> > Tony. . .
> >
> >
> > "miroku800" <miroku800@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:0F1B1A5A-7886-468F-B496-AD138A214331@microsoft.com...
> >> I have managed to get my SCSI card working but I can't load an ASPI layer
> > to
> >> get the scanners to work has anyone managed to find a way of getting them
> > to
> >> work as I have a pair of very high quality scanners that I really would
> > like
> >> to get back working
> >> Any ideas???
> >> Many thanks in advance
> >> Rob
> >
> >
>
>

Theo
Mon Jan 01 08:50:20 CST 2007

The best idea is to contact the company that markets the
scanner to see if they have published, or plan to publish, a
Win x64 driver package. If not, your next logical solution
is to purchase a scanner that does have the necessary
drivers available. That's what I had to do with my scanner.
Epson had my brand new scanner listed as Win x64 drivers
to be published. They changed their mind so I bought a
refurbished scanner that had drivers available and now I'm
able to use it in Win x64.

You can piss and moan all day, but if the applicable
vendor/manufacturer doesn't publish the necessary driver
package, there ain't much you can do about it! It
definitely is neither Microsoft's responsibly nor problem!


miroku800 wrote:
> I have managed to get my SCSI card working but I can't load an ASPI layer to
> get the scanners to work has anyone managed to find a way of getting them to
> work as I have a pair of very high quality scanners that I really would like
> to get back working
> Any ideas???
> Many thanks in advance
> Rob

miroku800
Mon Jan 01 12:01:02 CST 2007

I am certainly not moaning about microsoft but you are missing the point of
my posting, without an aspi layer in place I can't get windows to see my
scanners at all and therefore cannot get far enough to try the XP drivers I
have for them
Adaptec list an install instruction for X64 systems BUT I cant get the self
extracting exe file to extract and allow me to run the instructions and I was
trying to find out if anyone else had managed to get round this by perhaps
using another ASPI layer from another source

"Theo" wrote:

> The best idea is to contact the company that markets the
> scanner to see if they have published, or plan to publish, a
> Win x64 driver package. If not, your next logical solution
> is to purchase a scanner that does have the necessary
> drivers available. That's what I had to do with my scanner.
> Epson had my brand new scanner listed as Win x64 drivers
> to be published. They changed their mind so I bought a
> refurbished scanner that had drivers available and now I'm
> able to use it in Win x64.
>
> You can piss and moan all day, but if the applicable
> vendor/manufacturer doesn't publish the necessary driver
> package, there ain't much you can do about it! It
> definitely is neither Microsoft's responsibly nor problem!
>
>
> miroku800 wrote:
> > I have managed to get my SCSI card working but I can't load an ASPI layer to
> > get the scanners to work has anyone managed to find a way of getting them to
> > work as I have a pair of very high quality scanners that I really would like
> > to get back working
> > Any ideas???
> > Many thanks in advance
> > Rob
>

Theo
Tue Jan 02 12:02:24 CST 2007

I have not been able to find any ASPI files for Win x64.
I'm not sure there are any published. For Win x64 the ASPI
would have to be 64-bit, so there probably isn't any way to
get around it. It seems Microsoft doesn't get involved in
the ASPI issue at all and as far as I can tell, it's
primarily an Adaptec item. The dates of the most recent
ASPI package on Adaptec's web site is 23 Nov 2002, so there
would not be any Win x64 support in the package, but there
is Win XP IA64 support for the Intel Itanium.

What SCSI card do you have installed? What scanner do you have?


miroku800 wrote:
> I am certainly not moaning about microsoft but you are missing the point of
> my posting, without an aspi layer in place I can't get windows to see my
> scanners at all and therefore cannot get far enough to try the XP drivers I
> have for them
> Adaptec list an install instruction for X64 systems BUT I cant get the self
> extracting exe file to extract and allow me to run the instructions and I was
> trying to find out if anyone else had managed to get round this by perhaps
> using another ASPI layer from another source
>
> "Theo" wrote:
>
>> The best idea is to contact the company that markets the
>> scanner to see if they have published, or plan to publish, a
>> Win x64 driver package. If not, your next logical solution
>> is to purchase a scanner that does have the necessary
>> drivers available. That's what I had to do with my scanner.
>> Epson had my brand new scanner listed as Win x64 drivers
>> to be published. They changed their mind so I bought a
>> refurbished scanner that had drivers available and now I'm
>> able to use it in Win x64.
>>
>> You can piss and moan all day, but if the applicable
>> vendor/manufacturer doesn't publish the necessary driver
>> package, there ain't much you can do about it! It
>> definitely is neither Microsoft's responsibly nor problem!
>>
>>
>> miroku800 wrote:
>>> I have managed to get my SCSI card working but I can't load an ASPI layer to
>>> get the scanners to work has anyone managed to find a way of getting them to
>>> work as I have a pair of very high quality scanners that I really would like
>>> to get back working
>>> Any ideas???
>>> Many thanks in advance
>>> Rob