[filmscanners] RE: Firewire and Windows98

["Hemingway, David J" <HEMINGD@polaroid.com>]

Al,
As this pertains to the SS4000 as well I will tell you what I know. As in
SCSI these various transmission formats have a kernel that describes various
classes of devices it supports. The Firewire support in Win 98 did not
include a scanner class. A kernel for the scanner could be written by the
manufacturer but this costs time and money which in our case we elected not
to do.
There is a procedure which uses Firewire components from another operating
systems  but in our case also require some software modification.

David
 -----Original Message-----
From:   al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk [mailto:al@greenspace.freeserve.co.uk]

Sent:   Thursday, February 28, 2002 6:50 PM
To:     hemingd@polaroid.com
Subject:        [filmscanners] Firewire and Windows98

Hi folks,

I should really know the answer to this but I'll ask anyway!

The Minolta Elite II has both USB and Firewire ports but the manual states
that
Windows 98 can only use the USB port.  I thought Firewire drivers were
available
for Win98 so is this a limitation of the Minolta software or Win98?  Can
Vuescan
use the Firewire port under Win98?


Al Bond

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