RE: [APML] OT Firewire 1394

["R. Scott Ireland" <ireland@gate.net>]

I too have had no problems at all running the SS120 under Win2000 with a
SCSI-2 card. Worked the first time out of the box and every time since.

The same computer has a firewire card, but I decided not to fiddle with it,
due to some reports of bugginess I had read about the SS120 and firewire.
In fact, I added the SCSI card just for the SS120.

The firewire card does work beautifully with DV video - perfect, in fact,
including machine control of my DV editing machine, etc.  I still would not
risk using it with the 120 for scanning purposes.  I believe the limiting
speed factor in the scanner is more likely mechanical, rather than the data
transfer rate, so you would probably get marginal benefits from firewire
anyway.  Just a hunch - haven't tried it.

Scott

website:  http://www.rsiphotos.com/
email:  ireland@gate.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-astro-photo@seds.org [mailto:owner-astro-photo@seds.org]On
> Behalf Of Jon Kolb
> Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 8:03 PM
> To: 'astro-photo@seds.org'
> Subject: RE: [APML] OT Firewire 1394
>
>
> Dale,
>
> > I know there were a lot of
> > problems with Windows 2000 and NT detecting the scanner on
> > the scsi bus and
>
> I've had no problems with the SS120 SCSI-2 interface with Win2K.
> It worked
> the first time I hooked it up and has worked every time since then.  I
> didn't try it on my old 98 machine, but the SS4000 always worked fine on
> that one.
>
> You're right about the mechanical limitations - I don't see how firewire
> would really help anything with the SS120.
>
> Sincerely,
> Jon Kolb
> Adventures in Astrophotography
> http://home.datawest.net/jkolb/
> jkolb@mindport.com
>
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