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Quoted 1 line · Alan Cox

Not in the near future.

Never mind. I realized three things:

a) my 53c400 card must be initialized first by DOS driver to be detected by Linux kernel

b) The scanner initialization lasts about 4 minutes. And scanning is very slow even if I increase the kernel buffer to the max. as described in the SANE doc.

c) Using an adaptec SCSI adapter works just fine: scanner initializes immediately, card is recognized even without DOS and the scanning is much faster.

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Karel Kulhavy                     http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~clock
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a) my 53c400 card must be initialized first by DOS driver to be detected by Linux kernel

Ok I've not needed that for mine. Must be a variant init function is used on yours.

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b) The scanner initialization lasts about 4 minutes. And scanning is very slow even if I increase the kernel buffer to the max. as described in the SANE doc.

That sounds like a bug - takes about 9 seconds for me

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c) Using an adaptec SCSI adapter works just fine: scanner initializes immediately, card is recognized even without DOS and the scanning is much faster.

Yes - I keep meaning to move mine to a real scsi controller