Chinedum Osuji
Didier Carlier wrote:
>
> On 23-Jul-98 Chinedum Osuji wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Anyone out there ever run into the following with SGI/UMAX: Previews
> > and scans are all fine, at all resolutions and with color and or
> > transparency adapter, but only for scan files that do not equal or
> > exceed 4MB in size! For such scans, the scanner just stops a few seconds
> > into the scan, and a black or "black with white patches" image is
> > produced. When such a thing occurs, the little status bar that monitors
> > transfer of data to GIMP or whatever is blank. i.e. The box appears, but
> > no words or status bar is visible.
>
> The coolscan backend suffered from a very similar problem on SGI. The
> workaround has been to limit the size of the data chunks read from the scanner
> to 64K instead of 'sanei_scsi_max_request_size'.
>
> Probably more a workaround than a fix but since there was no perceivable
> performance penalty I kept it that way.
>
> Regards,
> Didier
>
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