Re: reaction to a smaller buffer size

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> > If you have one host adaptor which does scatter/gather and
> > a second host adaptor which does no scatter/gather,
> > the first will result in a buffer of 128K and the second a
> > buffer of 32K.
>
> I didn't see this point. But then again: If sanei_scsi_max_request_size
> is not constant, things might be messed up -- not necessarily for the
> Microtek2 backend, but perhaps for the backend of a second scanner
> conncted to the same machine.

You can certainly argue that reliable failure is to be prefered.
I'll try making the kernel driver do scatter/gather.

        Regards
                Oliver

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