Nikon Coolscan 9000 & Windows 7 & USB-Does this work?

[kiemchacsu]

Well, comments on Amazon and ebay are very broadly negative, with 60-90% one-star feedback - in an era of fake feedback, it is quite hard to get a rating as bad as that. I doubt that it will work at all, except maybe with some odd devices that aren't properly IEEE 1394 compliant - just for a start, the power specs of USB2 and Firewire are not reconcilable (the latter is variable voltage, with up to seven times the voltage and nine times the power).

Given that (doubtlessly working and reliable) PCI-E Firewire cards are almost as cheap, there is no point in buying a plug adapter.

I do understand that the PCI card is the safest solution, however, I'd like to use the scanner with my laptop also, that's why the solution of adapter is considered.
Well, I guess that's the cost of using old technology in modern era.
Thank you for your feedback.

 

[mich rassena]

It's tricky enough to get this series of scanners working with recent versions of Windows. Adding in converters just makes it more complicated and most likely won't even work.

Scanning isn't a particularly resource intensive application and I find it more annoying that it ties up the computer. If it were me, I'd just to seek out a cheap (<$150) laptop or desktop with Windows XP and FireWire on eBay and use that.

 

[BillBingham2]

Might try an old Mac Mini. Not sure about running windows 7 on it, but I know they have firewire (ieee 1394) built in and are pretty reasonable price-wise.

Adapting from USB to Firewire is possible but I'm guessing unless you are USB 3.0 or higher you will have issues with the volume of data being shoveled down the pipe. Might not be an issue, but make sure there is a strong return policy that protects you on what ever you buy.

B2 (;->

 

[mich rassena]

Might try an old Mac Mini. Not sure about running windows 7 on it, but I know they have firewire (ieee 1394) built in and are pretty reasonable price-wise.
B2 (;->

You can probably get the old Nikon software to work on OSX Lion on an old Mac, so Windows may not even be necessary.

 

[kiemchacsu]

Might try an old Mac Mini. Not sure about running windows 7 on it, but I know they have firewire (ieee 1394) built in and are pretty reasonable price-wise.

Adapting from USB to Firewire is possible but I'm guessing unless you are USB 3.0 or higher you will have issues with the volume of data being shoveled down the pipe. Might not be an issue, but make sure there is a strong return policy that protects you on what ever you buy.

B2 (;->

I don't think that the data quota is the limit, as later version of Coolscan 5000, it uses USB 2.0 interface;
Anyways, I bought a 2nd DELL PCI 1394 card to use with my PC, only 5 bucks.