HP SCSI scanner madness. Need help or a 12-gauge.......

[Ron_Jeremy 0]

I've been trying to setup a HP 5P SCSI scanner on a friends pc without success & haven't been this frustrated in a very long time.

 

His 5P originally came with it's own cable & ISA SCSI adapter (a weird triangular/wedge shaped PCB). Since he bought a new pc without ISA slots, I've been trying to connect it to my Adaptec 2940UW. The original cable was 50-pin to 50-pin, but he bought a new external SCSI cable that is 50-pin to 68-pin (to connect to wide external connector on the 2940UW). The cable he bought is supposedly for our situation here.

 

Anyway, the machine boots just fine with the 2940UW installed. But, if I connect the scanner, it won't finish booting. It gets stuck on the "Press ctrl+A to access scsi utility" line & will not proceed until it has timed out (failed to scan the SCSI bus) 3 times. Then it continues into Windows (which doesn't know the scanner exists, of course). If I do choose to go into the 2940UW's BIOS options & scan the SCSI bus, it takes a very long time to begin, then scans the first few ID#'s (3 I think) but hangs on the next one & says it "Timed out".

 

I am aware that HP doesn't officially support the 5P SCSI scanner in WinXP, but feel this isn't an issue at the moment since we obviously have hardware problems.

 

Can I assume the scanner is a terminated device? Or do I have to put a terminator into the second free 50-pin connector? My friend says a termintor was never needed before (with original cable/adapter).

 

Can anyone throw me a bone here?

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

uncle had the same issue with his HP scanner was scsi or USB, with scsi it would be there one second, then not there the next!

 

just went with usb in the end.