Artec A6000C problems

malcolm-sane@cs.york.ac.uk
Tue, 13 Oct 1998 18:16:54 +0100

I have an old Artec flatbed scanner, the 3-pass A6000C, rather than
the single-pass A6000C+. It was supplied with an NCR53c400a card,
which I had never been able to get Linux to recognise. Just the
other day I discovered the 'mustek-scsi-patch' for the 53c400a,
and now my system recognises the card, and the scanner too.
Hooray! (Btw, the DOS driver for the card claims it is a DTC 318x,
but the etching on the ceramic package is definitely 53c400a.)

Sadly, the sane-artec backend does not appear to work. I can neither
preview nor scan. Preview just causes the xscanimage application to
hang. Scan causes the whole machine to lock up, necessitating a
hard reset.

I have just discovered the latest versions of the artec backend
(more recent than the 0.74 sane distibution), so I'll give them a
go and see if the same thing happens.

Does anyone know if the programming model for the A6000C differs
from the A6000C+ at all? It seems a little unlikely to me, especially
since the programming doc for the latter is dated 2/1992, and I only
bought the former model in 1994/5.

Regards,
Malcolm

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