Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
>
> Yes. The 3 minute time was using scanimage on the local machine. It
> doesn't have X so I couldn't try xscanimage or xsane.
>
> It looks like the backend spends a lot of time probing the scanner.
>
> Would the debug log be helpful?
>
Possibly. Post it and with any luck someone will recognise the problem.
> On Tuesday 24 April 2001 01:04, Mick Barry wrote:
> > Shawn,
> >
> > Have you tried doing a local scan (not using saned) and seeing how
> > long that takes for the same scan. This'll help isolate whether the
> > problem is with saned or not.
> >
> > mick
> >
> > Shawn D'Alimonte wrote:
> > > I am trying to use my old HP ScanJet IIp as a network scanner. I
> > > have it attached to an old 386/40 using the original HP SCSI
> > > card[1]. A lineart scan with scanimage takes over 3 minutes. Is
> > > this normal? When I turn on SANE_DEBUG_HP I see a lot of time spent
> > > probing the scanner.
> > >
> > > I tried 'scanimage -d net:erwin:hp:/dev/sga >junk.pbm'on another
> > > machine which takes about 5 minutes to do the scan (again a long
> > > pause at the start, then a slowish scan) but when the scan is done
> > > give an endless stream of 'scanimage: stopping scanner... (sig
> > > 13)'. I was able to scan using XSane over the network once, but it
> > > was slow and eventually crashed with a 'broken pipe'. Xscanimage
> > > crashed with 'brokenpipe' during a preview.
> > >
> > > The machine is a generic 386SX/40 (No FPU) with 20MB RAM and a 30GB
> > > HDD (Network MP3 server.) running Debian potato with a 2.2.19
> > > kernel. Sane 1.0.4 was built from source. I have no other PCs
> > > with SCSI ports (or ISA slots to put the card in) so I can't try on
> > > a faster machine.
> > >
> > > [1] Yes, that card does work with Linux. You have to run the DOS
> > > driver (mini400i.sys) to configure the IO port and IRQ before Linux
> > > boots. I use a floppy w/ DOS, the driver, loadlin and the kernel
> > > on it. Read /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.g_5380 for
> > > configuration info. Give it the ncr_53c400a=1 option when loading.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Shawn D'Alimonte sdalimon@home.com
> > >
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