In general Sane can deal with multiple scanners. It depends on the
backends if you can have two of the same type / two from the same
manufacturer (or even more). The EPSON backend e.g. can scan from
two different scanners at the same time - you have to start two
instances of your frontend to do this, so it's not really the same
instance of the backend.
I am not familiar with the MaxiScan, but I guess it's not even using the
same backend as the Snapscan, so you should have no problems at all
getting these scanners connected and running at the same time.
Karl Heinz
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 12:29:02AM +0200, Ceri Hankey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a USB Scanner (Agfa Snapscan 1212 USB) and a SCSI connected scanner
> ( MaxiScan A4 deluxe with an Acard SCSI card).
>
> Can the drivers deal with both types of scanner on the same system?
>
> Also, WHY is it so hard to get these scanners to work? CD Writing (which I
> would have thought was much more difficult) works fine and so do the printers,
> so why not scanners?
>
> I have just installed Sane 1.0.5 and am running Mandrake 8.0 (Kernel 2.4.3)
>
> Neither scanner scans - thogh I was (for 5 mins) able to get scanimage -L to
> tell me that I had a SCSI scanner
>
>
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