Re: Silly noises instead of an Image

Uwe Maier (umaier@rz.fh-heilbronn.de)
Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:12:55 +0100

>> > --speed and --backtrack has no meaning for the SE. Get rid of this damn
>> > crippled SCSI-card shipped with the scanner. I've got an Adaptec 1520 and
>> > 486-machine, a full page scan at 300dpi takes just 3 min. And kill
anything
>> > not absolutely necessary before scanning.
>>
>> I think that this isn't a solution!
>> Or I could say: Change the OS and buy M$ in order to have whatever you
want to!
>> I think that some people have used both the scanner and the scsi interface
>> card I'm using and they have used it right! What did they do? Is it so
>> difficult to describe??????
>
>You can think all you want. But the answer is a clear indication of the
>opposite. The card seems to be failure if used with SANE.

Sorry, but that's not true. The card works well - for having no interrupt
line. I'm
using it with a Mustek 1200SP revision 1.05. My PC (P-133, 64 MB,
2940UW-SCSI too,
2.0.29-2.0.36 Kernels) does also some samba serving and I must admit that
the whole
system slows down very much when scanning (compared to a total system
freeze on M$
this is really a step ahead). Nevertheless it's at least good for two or
three scans
a day (b/w for faxing). And since SANE 1.0 is out it also works with color
(great work btw).
It's surely a better solution to exchange the scanner card but if you've
got enough
time to waste you can use it. It would have been nice to enable the
interrupt but the
adapter is then unusable for M$. And to be honest, who of us is lucky
enough to be
able to ignore M$?
uwe

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