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#305744 1-Jun-2023 11:46

I have an old Canon film scanner and the SCSI card that used to drive it. It's a PCI card and of course that doesn't work in anything vaguely modern. Is there any sort of bridge/adapter/whatever that will do the job? Alternatively how old a desktop to I need to buy to have a PCI interface?

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#3083241 1-Jun-2023 12:09

You can see the odd industrial board with PCI on it up to at least 7th gen intel CPUs. consumer/gaming boards dropped it a long time ago. You sure you can get drivers for the card tho?

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#3083246 1-Jun-2023 13:02

Buy the StarTech PEX1PCI1 PCI Express to PCI Adapter Card ( PEX1PCI1 ) online - PBTech.co.nz

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#3083256 1-Jun-2023 13:22

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Buy the StarTech PEX1PCI1 PCI Express to PCI Adapter Card ( PEX1PCI1 ) online - PBTech.co.nz

Not cheap! I wonder whether a PCI Express SCSI card might be a better choice (although admittedly I don't know how much those cost either).

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#3083260 1-Jun-2023 13:35

Or a newer more modern scanner.

You do start to run into issues with getting drivers that support windows 10/11 so I suggest you can source or confirm the scanner works on W10/11 first

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#3083526 2-Jun-2023 01:03

If you do not mind waiting a little for it to arrive, this looks very much like the one I got from TradeMe back in 2020:

https://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005004630303526.html

I got the two PCI slot version and have it out the back of my mother's MythTV box running two PCI dual DVB-T tuner cards. It works very well - it has never given any problems.

I am not sure that you can get PCIe SCSI cards - they are all SAS ports these days (serial SCSI). Old parallel SCSI disappeared around the time PCIe came along and I do not remember there ever being any parallel SCSI PCIe cards. There may be parallel SCSI to SAS converters out there, but I suspect they are very rare and hard to find. And likely expensive too. So I would recommend getting a PCIe to PCI adapter like the one above. StarTech make good products, but they are always pretty expensive.