[sane-devel] FreeBSD and Microtek Scanmaker II

[abel deuring]

Nakal wrote:

>>And you should tell FreeBSD not to look for all LUNs of the scanner
>>while it tries to detect devices on the SCSI bus.
> 
> 
> Yupp, I did that too, still same. It still gets timeout. I found out that I 
> can scan gray pictures, because it's only one pass. It works perfectly! But 
> as soon as the scanner tries another pass (e.g. color mode) then it does not 
> react (like it forgot the last SCSI command it got). It does not freeze. The 
> scanner is simply idle.
> 
> I think, sane should repeat the SCSI-command until it succeeds and gets ACK 
> and not just wait for ACK, because there won't come any as long as the 
> scanner moves back the carriage. I can directly start another scan after 
> pressing control+C. There is no problem, but it will always get timeout while 
> initializing the scan for the second pass in 3-pass mode.
> 
> I remember that earlier (1 or 2 years ago) when I used Linux, sane worked with 
> my microtek without problems.

That could be due to different timeout settings. Older versions of Sane 
had different SCSI command timeoit settings for different operating 
systems. This is meanwhile "unified" to 2 minutes, which might be too 
small for the Scanmaker II. IIRC, the delay between two scan passes is 
really long.

So you could try to increase that time to 3 or 4 minutes or whatever 
might be appropriate. You can do this by setting the environment 
variable SANE_SCSICMD_TIMEOUT to the timeout value (in seconds).

Abel