# Is my Artec AT12 broken?

From: Charles Briscoe-Smith (charles.briscoe-smith@uk.alcove.com)
Date: Thu May 31 2001 - 03:49:04 PDT

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  Until I get time to work on reverse engineering that Artec Ultima 2000
  USB that's sitting in my drawer at the moment, we're trying to use an
  old Artec ViewStation AT12 SCSI scanner. I'm having big problems with
  it, though. The host occasionally locks up while trying to access the
  scanner, and when it does scan anything, the output appears divided into
  thin horizontal bands, each of which is offset relative to the next.
  I've tried the scanner on at least two different SCSI cards, both on
  the same host adaptor as the disks, and on a different adaptor, both
  with and without a tape drive daisychained on. I believe the bus is
  correctly terminated, using a pass-through style terminator.

  In fact, I found that if I unplug the SCSI bus from the scanner then turn
  the scanner on, the scanner light comes on, the carriage moves back and
  forth a bit, then the light goes off and comes back on. Then the scanner
  light stays on indefinitely. This looks abnormal to me. Do you think
  the scanner is broken, or is there something I've missed?

  Thanks for any help,

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