Re: HP backend slow? / Saned problems

From: Mick Barry (mick@objects.com.au)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 22:04:08 PDT

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    Shawn,

    Have you tried doing a local scan (not using saned) and seeing how long
    that takes for the same scan. This'll help isolate whether the problem
    is with saned or not.

    mick

    Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
    >
    > I am trying to use my old HP ScanJet IIp as a network scanner. I have
    > it attached to an old 386/40 using the original HP SCSI card[1]. A
    > lineart scan with scanimage takes over 3 minutes. Is this normal?
    > When I turn on SANE_DEBUG_HP I see a lot of time spent probing the
    > scanner.
    >
    > I tried 'scanimage -d net:erwin:hp:/dev/sga >junk.pbm'on another
    > machine which takes about 5 minutes to do the scan (again a long pause
    > at the start, then a slowish scan) but when the scan is done give an
    > endless stream of 'scanimage: stopping scanner... (sig 13)'. I was
    > able to scan using XSane over the network once, but it was slow and
    > eventually crashed with a 'broken pipe'. Xscanimage crashed with
    > 'brokenpipe' during a preview.
    >
    > The machine is a generic 386SX/40 (No FPU) with 20MB RAM and a 30GB HDD
    > (Network MP3 server.) running Debian potato with a 2.2.19 kernel. Sane
    > 1.0.4 was built from source. I have no other PCs with SCSI ports (or
    > ISA slots to put the card in) so I can't try on a faster machine.
    >
    > [1] Yes, that card does work with Linux. You have to run the DOS
    > driver (mini400i.sys) to configure the IO port and IRQ before Linux
    > boots. I use a floppy w/ DOS, the driver, loadlin and the kernel on
    > it. Read /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.g_5380 for configuration
    > info. Give it the ncr_53c400a=1 option when loading.
    >
    > --
    > Shawn D'Alimonte sdalimon@home.com
    >
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