[sane-devel] Tamarack 6000C slooow scanning

[Oliver Rauch]

"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

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