From: Oliver Rauch <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Tamarack 6000C slooow scanning Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:13:35 +0100
> "Andrei B." wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I already put this question when sane was at version 1.0.3 > > Yesterday I upgraded to sane-1.0.6 and tried again. > > I have a Tamarack 6000C scanner (branded ESCOM, but sane-find-scanner > > sees it as Tamarack) with a g_NCR5380 ISA SCSI card. > > As with previous versions of sane, the scanner works, but it works so > > horribly slow that scanning a full A4 page at 300dpi greyscale takes > > over an hour!!! > > The stepper motor moving the sensor cart moves about one step per > > second instead of a continuos rapid succession of steps. > > > > Please advise me what can I do to improve scanning speed. > > Buy a good scsi card. The g_NCR5380 ISA card is trash. > > Bye > Oliver > > -- > Homepage: http://www.rauch-domain.de > sane-umax: http://www.rauch-domain.de/sane-umax > xsane: http://www.xsane.org > E-Mail: mailto:[email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Sane-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.mostang.com/mailman/listinfo/sane-devel > From: Oliver Rauch <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] Tamarack 6000C slooow scanning Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 17:13:35 +0100 > "Andrei B." wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I already put this question when sane was at version 1.0.3 > > Yesterday I upgraded to sane-1.0.6 and tried again. > > I have a Tamarack 6000C scanner (branded ESCOM, but sane-find-scanner > > sees it as Tamarack) with a g_NCR5380 ISA SCSI card. > > As with previous versions of sane, the scanner works, but it works so > > horribly slow that scanning a full A4 page at 300dpi greyscale takes > > over an hour!!! > > The stepper motor moving the sensor cart moves about one step per > > second instead of a continuos rapid succession of steps. > > > > Please advise me what can I do to improve scanning speed. > > Buy a good scsi card. The g_NCR5380 ISA card is trash. ok I would throw the cards away, too. Maybe after this some tuning of buffer sized might also help additionally. The Avision backend was based on the tamarack one and I changed some things in this area. But I do not know if the tamarack backend is still active maintained ... > Bye > Oliver k33p h4ck1n6 René -- René Rebe (Registered Linux user: #248718 <http://counter.li.org>) eMail: [email protected] [email protected] Homepage: http://drocklinux.dyndns.org/rene/ Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms.
