Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 17:44:55 +0200 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies), freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mustek Paragon 600 II SP supported? Message-ID: <199609221544.RAA26343@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <199609221007.MAA11522@allegro.lemis.de>; from Greg Lehey on Sep 22, 1996 12:07:48 %2B0200 References: <199609221007.MAA11522@allegro.lemis.de>
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Greg Lehey writes: > 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 came with Win95 software and some WIN/D software I haven't yet unpacked. It claims to be a true 600dpi (interpolating to 2048 dpi) one pass color scanner. Size of the case is slightly larger than an A4 paper, i.e. the scannable area is exactly A4. > > - It doesn't drop the SCSI bus during the scan. Considering the time Uuh, really? > 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. I think we are talking about different models. Anyway, I decided to keep the scanner and come worst I will use Win95 as a driver for the scanner and transfer the scans to the FreeBSD box. Is there a way to snoop the SCSI bus somehow? I.e. build some hardware and feed the scsi commands to a parallel port or something? > > Greg > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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