Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:07:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mustek Paragon 600 II SP supported? Message-ID: <199609221007.MAA11522@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199609210946.LAA20812@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from "Christoph Kukulies" at Sep 21, 96 11:46:17 am
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Christoph Kukulies writes: > > I just bought a Mustek Paragon 600 II SP scanner hoping it being > supported by FreeBSD. It comes with a tiny SCSI ISA controller board > with a SymBIOS Logic 53C400A chip on it. > > Any chance getting it to work with that controller? I don't know. The scanner I had didn't come with a controller, though it was documented. My brother-in-law lent me one to try out, and I connected it directly to my SCSI controller. As to the scanner: I connected it via a standard SCSI controller (probably Adaptec 154x, but I've forgotten). The software I found was less than perfect, but I was able to get acceptable black-and-white images. Colour images came out too light and too green. I'm sure that it's relatively trivial to fix it, but I just haven't had the time. The other problems I have with this scanner are: - It is *sloooooooow*. A full-colour scan took about 10 minutes. To be fair, I'm not sure I'm talking about exactly the same model that you mention. It was a Mustek Paragon, but I can't remember the "II SP". Possibly this indicates a model 2 with single pass, in which case they would have addressed the worst problem. - It doesn't drop the SCSI bus during the scan. Considering the time it takes, and that it has to write data to disk, this means you can't use it with a SCSI disk on the same host adaptor. I had an IDE disk on the machine I tried it with. I decided against buying the scanner, mainly because of the speed and the work that still needed to be done. I have some modified software here if you want it. Greg
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