Servus !
> Marc> Hello David, three weeks ago I decided to buy a Paragon 600 II
>
> Marc> CD, because Mustek is the most mentioned scanner-vendor in the
>
> Marc> Linux-community, I think. I read most of the
> Marc> sane-devel-mailing-list. So I experienced that the scsi card
> Marc> that came with the scanner is >a worthless piece of junk<.
>
> Well, I hope you don't feel misled. I'm sure many people on this list
>
> would be happy to share their experience with various scanners (and I,
>
> for one, would recommend a Mustek scanner only with certain caveats,
> but it happens to be what I have, so I try to make the best use of
> it). Mind you, buying the most mentioned scanner is not unlike buying
>
> the most-mentioned OS, by which logic you would not be running
> Linux, so I'm not sure that is a good criteria. ;-)
> Marc> What is the reason for these timeouts and where in the
> Marc> source-code can I fix that? I tried in drivers/scsi/scsi.c
> That's the mid-level SCSI code---it works fine. The problem is most
> likely in the driver itself.
> I don't know about the AVA-1505 adapter. Is there really such a
> thing? If it's an AHA-1505: I think Mathias Weigt has his scanner
> connected using the same kind of adapter. Mathias, do you have any
> patches that fixes the problems? If you send patches, I'll make sure
> to add something to the sane-mustek(5) man-page regarding this
> problem.
Seemed you stepped into your first problem with Mustek scanners
:-(.Nobody knows how they will behave in certain situations. I think
e.g. HP
isn`t mentioned such much because there aren`t much problems with it.
Ok, I`m afraid I can`t help with driver fixes - I don`t have timeout
problems
with this adapter (and my MFS-06000CX) at all. Yes, the AVA-1505 is just
another AHA-1505 (1515 without BIOS). I bought this adapter because I
couldn`t
get the scanner working together with my system disk on the same adapter
(NCR 810)
- the system froze nearly every time I scanned under X11. I chose the
AVA-1505
because I heard of good experiences with it in a windoze (scanner)
newsgroup (don`t
know anymore).
Your adapter setup seems to be ok. The only thing you have to be aware
of is that
"reconnect" must be disabled otherwise the scanner isn`t found.
The problem may lie in the scanner itself. Try to remove the terminator
from the scanner (It shouldn`t make a difference but nobody knows...) On
the Cebit this year
I talked to a Mustek-person who told me to connect my ZIP-drive after
the scanner
and terminate this (but for me there is no difference). Try to connect
another device
to your adapter (alone and with the scanner) so that you can be sure
your adapter
is working.
I don`t know parameters for the dos-driver. The scanner works with win95
and
Mustek`s TWAIN - driver (not as good as SANE). The miniport-driver is
available
at http://www.adaptec.com. You must boot win95 with the scanner turned
on. The
adapter and the scanner are found and you have to disable disconnect in
"Gerätemanager-> Scanner->Einstellungen" (don`t know the English terms
exactly).
Now you can install the twain driver with the adaptec option.
-- Mathias Weigt p5iba@medchem2.pharmazie.uni-halle.de
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