On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:20:13PM +0100, Nigel Feltham wrote: > I cannot help with info on the SF-100 but the LS-1000 scanner itself works > fine under SANE.
Excellent, I just won one by accident on you-know-where (including the SF-100, we shall see ...) :) > The only Nikon film scanner to avoid is the original LS-10 as it's a real > pain > to get it to work (the reason I gave up and upgraded to LS-1000) - I have one > and it's impossible to use reliably on either windows or linux unless using > an ISA SCSI controller (so needs an old PC) and is unsupported by SANE. > It does work intermittenyly under Vuescan on Linux on a PCI card (according > to > Nikon's website it doesn't work at all under windows on PCI so one point for > Linux there) but only for actual scanning - automatic calibration fails. The > reason appears to be that it only supports SCSI 1 data speeds and PCI cards > try to transfer data too quick (they only support SCSI II and later) and > corrupt it. My Tekram dc315 provides a parameter for selecting the speed: > /sbin/modinfo dc395x filename: /lib/modules/2.6.11/kernel/drivers/scsi/dc395x.ko author: C.L. Huang / Erich Chen / Kurt Garloff description: SCSI host adapter driver for Tekram TRM-S1040 based adapters: Tekram DC395 and DC315 series license: GPL vermagic: 2.6.11 preempt K7 REGPARM gcc-3.3 ... parm: max_speed:Maximum bus speed. Default 1 (0-7) Speeds: 0=20, 1=13.3, 2=10, 3=8, 4=6.7, 5=5.8, 6=5, 7=4 Mhz (int) ... the last three of which seem to me quite SCSI-1, but the old asr saying about SCSI chains and the necessity of three terminations (one being the black goat sacrificed to please the gods) still very much applies > You may want to email the makers of Vuescan ( http://www.hamrick.com/ ) about > support for the Slide feeders - the software's not free but does support > many scanners (mostly SCSI) that SANE doesn't as they have proprietry info > that the manufacturers won't give SANE coders access to (due to NDA's that > mean the resulting Source cannot be distributed). Yes, I could still try to rever^Wuse that if all else fails. thanks, Alexander -- Alexander Oelzant (Durchlaufstr. 7/4/5, A-1200 Wien) alexan...@oelzant.priv.at a...@fsinf.htu.tuwien.ac.at ex-internic, ripe, bofh, priv.at: !ao418 +43 1 3500929 +43 676 84441065 McQ
