On Sun, 2001-12-09 at 21:57, Mark Seven Smith wrote: > I am looking for useful, and CHEAP--I am on a fixed income, > and feeling very poor these days ;-) The Hewlett-Packard > website claims that the scanner I have needs a $150 dollar > card; in fact they generously point out the exact card they > want me to buy...the card that came with the scanner, the > Hewlett-Packard card, is useless, they admit, but they > won't do anything about it. So basically it is a useless > scanner, the way it is shipped. I think the card would > work with Windows 3.1, but the scanner was purchased when I > was using Windows 95 (and it was supposed to be > compatible),but gave nothing but trouble. Now, I use > Linux, but of course there's no way to support the stupid > useless card (which was a triangular board with a small > chip on it).
I have a HP scanjet 5p and I replaced the ISA triangle card with a PCI Adaptec 2904. It worked perfectly well. In fact, any card with and external SCSI-2 connector will certainly do fine. Don't believe the lies they tell you.
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