Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote: > Maybe it's just backtracking? I.e. the scanner is too fast for the > parallel port. Does the scan head stop shortly when the noise occurs? > Or does it even move backe some milimeters?
Hmmm... hard to say, the steps are very small, ofc. It doesn't move back. I'd say that it... uh... hesitates in a way (maybe sometimes stops for a split-second) *after* 2 or 3 consecutive "clanks". I.e. the step rate remains the same but the steps get smaller for a while (you canhear that by the synchronous "uk-uk-uk-.." sound of the stepping motor). It definitely doesn't stop *at* a "clank", anyway. The result is that if it "clanks" at a certain line of scanned text, the image is vertically stretched a bit at that line. I tried all combos of EPP/ECP on the parport, with both EPP 1.7 and 1.9. No change. May I ask a silly question here? How can a 1998 scanner that was designed for a 1998 parallel port be too fast for a 2003 AthlonXP 1400's parallel port? Any other settings I should try? Sorry, but I'm really clueless on those scanner things, as you might have noticed already ;-) Would you consider that backtracking thing sort of an acceptable (if not normal) mode of operation? I mean, that noise is *really* loud... but if you think it's by all means not related to any SW/driver issues, I'll stop bugging you with this. After all, I am well aware that this is not the Medion helpdesk ;-) TIA, -wolfgang
