Anyone been able to get a Mustek scanner to work under Win2K

Hi,

Has anyone managed to get a paraller Mustek scanner to work under Win2K? I have a Mustek ScanExpress 6000P and it's currently my only piece of hardware not working in Win2k.

I was just wondering if anyone knew of a fix or something to get scanners working. For example something similar as the fix for Lexmark 3200; it was so simple that I just couldn't believe it!

Maybe I should just get a new scanner... I heard that the Agfa scanners have pretty good Win2k support. I also wrote to Mustek customer support on this (twice) and I just received an answer. I'll post it here, although I'm not quite sure what they mean exactly...:

"Dear Customer,

look for new driver in internet: www.mustek.com.tw this month or next.
Mustek have more like 20 models of scanner. We have new driver for some
scanners but not for 6000 P.

Best regards, Mustek"

Thanks for the info man! Someone at work was wondering when they would be releasing new drivers.

i got my mustek MFS12000SP scsi-scanner working under win2k with the win9x twain-drivers even though there is an "unknown scsi-scannerdevice in the device-manager

How did you get the Win9x drivers to install? What file(s) did you use and where did you get them?


[This message has been edited by jbrockman (edited 19 March 2000).]

By the way, arent the Mustek drivers for NT and 9x the same drivers? At least in the case of my scanner, the zips are identical, and neither can be installed in Win2k. There's a line in the "install.ini" (or whatever it's called), that installation was aborted. So, I guess it's Win2k that aborts the installation because the installation program is trying copy files or do something that Win2k doesnt like.

We had a similar problem with Lexmark printers until someone came up with an unbelievably simple solution; just add one line to a windows printer.ini file. The reason why I originally posted this message was to see if anyone had any ideas about a similar fix for scanners. No luck so far...

Andy

I'm using the files 1pv35.exe and 1pv37.exe that's been for downloading on the mustek.com.tw site. These are the twain drivers for the MFS12000SP and Win9x installing without any problem.

I tried both files. Neither one will get past the point of the installation program testing the scanner interface. What type of scsi card are you using?

The scanner is connected to an AHA2940UW with 0.75m high-densitycable and is terminated active.

PII400
192MB RAM
MSI 6151 Motherbord(no ACPI support)
Matrox MGA400 16MB
Sony Multiscan17Sf
Adaptec AHA2940UW
Elsa Microlink ISDN-PCI
Intel Etherexpress Pro/100+
Edimax 5-Port Dual-speedhub
Plextor PX32TSI
Plextor PX-W124TS (fantastic 12x speed and taking nearly every cdr-media even the cheapest ones)
Mustek Paragon MFS12000SP
Lexmark Optra S1255 (connected via ethernet)
Canon BJC5100 (the only still not working device - drivers sheduled for release may2000)

my friend has a parallel Mustek scanner for the home and he installed the win9x drivers
they work more or less fine

My Mustek 1200 CP works like a charm. Even without rebooting. Only $59 at Wal-Wart and it does 600x1200 and 48 bit color.