Cheryl, If you get an SCSI scanner, be sure to get the SCSI card supplied by the scanner vendor. We have never been able to get an SCSI scanner to work with a generic SCSI card. John On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Gil Andre wrote: > > Cheryl, > > Sorry but ISA to USB does not exist. ISA is simply too old, > and all the adapters I have seen are PCI to USB. I am not > even sure that ISA has enough bandwidth to be able to manage > USB speed. > > So, one solution is the PCI to USB card -- but I am not sure > that can be managed by Linux. There are a lot of drivers for > Windows, of course, but I guess that's out of the equation... > > I think the best solution for you would be to buy a cheap > SCSI card for your PCI bus, and plug an SCSI scanner into > it. I know Adaptec now makes pretty cheap and adequate > SCSI cards -- and most Linux distributions manage SCSI very > well. > > Finding a SCSI scanner may take you a little bit more time, > but the price should be roughly equal to the USB version, > and you'll probably have less trouble making it work with > Linux. > > If you don't want to upgrade your motherboard, the SCSI > solution seems the best. > > Hope this helps! > > On Tue, 26 Mar 2002 13:26:58 -0600 (CST), Cheryl wrote: > > I don't want to replace my motherboard, but can one get > > a usb adapter for an isa slot? Would linux support this > > and does anybody know how expensive that would be as > > opposed to a motherboard? > > Thanks. > > > -- Computers to Help People, Inc. http://www.chpi.org 825 East Johnson; Madison, WI 53703