# Re: sane and microtek scanmaker 35t

Matto Marjanovic (maddog@mir.com)
Sun, 6 Dec 1998 15:10:04 -0500 (EST)

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>Some months ago I got hold of an old scanner called Microtek Scanmaker
>35t, which I want to get up and running in Linux as well as Windows 98.
>I'm aware of the fact that only the scanmaker 35t+ is officially
>supported by SANE, but I tried it anyway.

This scanner should work with the microtek backend, give or take few bug
fixes, I suppose. It's not listed as "working" because you are the
first person to ever mention it to me, working or non-working.

Try it again, but enable debugging output (instructions available on both
man-page and backend website), and send a log to <mtek-bugs@mir.com>.

Could you also tell me what the optical resolution of the scanner is?
The backend guesses 1950dpi; this is not information returned by the
scanner itself. If this is wrong, it could be the root of the problem.

One last thing: it's probably best to disable disconnect/reconnect for
the scanner -- this would be an option to the SCSI driver. It seems to
be enabled, from the log you sent. The aha152x is pretty lame about
timeouts and all; that's why you have to reboot the machine when it hangs.
(You're better off installing it as a module, but even then you have to
wait a long time before it will let you rmmod and re-insmod it.)

-matt m.

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