Re: Astra 6X0S-patch available

Nicolas Lucas de Peslouan (nlp@usa.net)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:29:29 +0100

Oliver.Rauch@Wolfsburg.DE wrote:
> Hm, don't know where the black area come from!
> Did you use sane before, has there been the black area at versions before
> this patch or before sane-0.69?

I use sane since 0.67 with success with Astra 610S scanner.
No "black area" on 0.67 nor 0.68.

> Did you try sane-0.69?

Yes, but... got an error message.

$ scanimage --mode grey>/dev/null

========== Scanner Inquiry Block ==========
06 08 02 02 8f 00 00 00 55 4d 41 58 20 20 20 20
41 73 74 72 61 20 36 31 30 53 20 20 20 20 20 20
56 31 2e 33 43 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

========== Scanner Inquiry Report ==========
===== Scanner ID...
Device Type Code: 0x06
Model Code: 0x00
Vendor Name: 'UMAX ' Model Name: 'Astra 610S '
Firmware Rev: 'V1.3'
SCSI F/W version: 0.8 Scanner F/W version: 0.2
Response data format: 0x02

scanimage: sane_start: Invalid argument
$

> Which SCSI-Controller do you use?

Tekram DC-390 (PCI), shown as "am53c974" in /proc/scsi.

> I think there are two possibilities:
> 1) I changed something form sane-0.68 to sane-0.69 that does not
> work with your scanner or scsi-card
> 2) the driver if your scsi-card does not work the way it is suppused
> to do.

Don't know, but the "black area" seems to be of constant size (in
bytes), since its size (in pixel) change between grey & color mode and
with resolution.

I Will try the 2nd patch now.

Nicolas.

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