[filmscanners] Nikon LS30 on XP

["Rob Geraghty" <robg@wordweb.com>]

Bob Shomler <bobf2@shomler.com> wrote:
> I have the same config working.  I use Vuescan, not Nikonscan.
>  I did download and install the latest Nikon driver, and I downloaded
ASPI.

Pardon my ignorance - what version is the latest Nikon driver?  Where did
you fnid it - because last I went searching for it, I had to do a lot of
digging.  I've managed to resurrect my PC still in Win2K so I don't need to
move to XP straight away.  I will do so when the current project is complete
(scanning pictures for a visa application) and I can afford the time to
reinstall all the software.  Sadly this hard drive crash killed my RAID
stripe and I lost a couple of weeks' work in scanning (as well as a week's
work editing and compressing video).  Now I have a DVD+-RW drive and I can
back up more efficiently.  I'm also going to set up a backup system to my
second PC over a LAN cable.  The loss of the scans is a bummer, but at least
I *didn't* lose all my emails, address book etc, and most importantly all my
digital pics from the video camera which would have been gone forever.  One
of the downsides of going fully digital - no backup in the form of film!!

The cheap SCSI cadr works with the LS30 in Win2K so hopefully it will still
work in XP.  It doesn't talk to the old HP Scanjet IIIc however, but the
adaptec SCSI adapter on the motherboard of my old PC still does thankfully.

Rob

PS For anyone who upgrades to Nero 6 to do DVD data disks as a means to save
scans - I didn't find the drop-down box at the top left corner of the Nero
window an obvious way of selecting between CD and DVD disk types.  I was
expecting every possible disk type to be in the scrollable icon list.  You
can get there using the StartSmart wrapper, but I have an innate loathing of
Wizards. ;)  I'm still wondering why my 4X DVD-R drive is only writing at
2X - I think it's the media.

PPS I was tempted to get another hard drive so the boot drive is a mirror,
but decided against the expense for now.  I'm annoyed enough for paynig
someone else $100 to copy data off the drive; something I could have done
myself.  As luck would have it, the drive apparently got too hot and wanted
a rest.  It now has two dirty great fans sitting on top of it so I don't
think it will overheat again in a hurry, but summer is almost upon me...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unsubscribe by mail to listserver@halftone.co.uk, with 'unsubscribe 
filmscanners'
or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or 
body