Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/12

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Subject: [Leica] Nikon LS-4000 scanner
From: mail at gpsy.com (Karen Nakamura)
Date: Sat Feb 12 17:20:02 2005
References: <200502122220.j1CMK1r6044989@server1.waverley.reid.org>

At 6:24 AM +0800 05.2.13, Mads Christensen wrote:
>I have just noticed that Nathan has run his LS-2000 using a SCSI-USB
>adapter. I am unable to run my LS-4000 on my laptop using a firewire-USB
>adapter that plugs into a modem port on my laptop. Well, it is not quite
>true because the laptop is actually able 'to see' the scanner for some 10-15
>minutes and then it 'vanishes'. The laptop is running on Windows XP and it
>has USB 1st generation ports only.

Sounds like the drivers aren't quite up to snuff. Have you contacted 
the manufacturer to see if there are newer drivers?

Do you have a PC-card slot (aka PCMCIA)?  If so, you could use a 
firewire PC card. They're quite cheap nowadays.

Karen

Karen Nakamura
http://www.photoethnography.com/ClassicCameras/
http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/

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