Re: mustek scanner

Georg Huettenegger (georg@mondoshawan.unix.cslab.tuwien.ac.at)
Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:05:48 +0200 (CEST)

dear dave,

> i have a mustek mfs6000cx scanner that i would like to get to work under
> sane. sane documentation shows the mfs6000cx as being supported but i
> cannot even get the scanner recognized by my adaptec 1520 card at boot.
> i tried to get the supplied ncr58c400a card to work but decided it
> wasn't worth the effort. mustek claims the mfs6000cx is a proprietary
> twain driven device and were actually quite nasty when they found i was
> running linux. i scanned the list archive but didn't see any articles
> relating to my problem but since you say this scanner will work can
> somebody point me in the right direction? the scaner is on during boot
> and i have tried a db25 connection with passive term. on the centronics
> 50 and also the other way around, i have left the mac connector alone.
> i have a scsi hard drive hooked to this card internally and have
> connected an old fujitsu scanner to the external port. i had no trouble
> getting either device recognized at boot. some letters mentioned using
> a ui? to get around the twain problem. any and all assistance will be
> appreciated. i am also aware of the limitations of this scanner not
> being rev 2 compliant but it was free and i need a scanner

i am not sure about your model, but a friend of mine got himself a rather
old mustek model himself a 1200xx (don't know exactly). the important
point is: this scanner was not recognised by a normal scsi controller (the
bios scan of the scsi controller did not detect the device). i gave the
friend my dtc card that came with my mustek 600 ii cd (i use a ncr810) and
with this card the windows drivers did work.
i am not sure whether this device will work under linux anyways but a
normal scsi controller will not even detect it (and sane will not be able
to use it).

cheers,
georg huettenegger

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