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<title>sane-devel: Mustek Paragon CD II</title>
<h1>Mustek Paragon CD II</h1>
<b>Sven Neumann</b> (<a href="mailto:neumanns@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de"><i>neumanns@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de</i></a>)<br>
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Hi, <br>
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a friend of mine and myself, were both trying to get a Mustek SP II but were<br>
both shipped a new model called Mustek Paragon CD II. The vendor claimed that<br>
only the name was changed and all technical details remained unchanged. This is<br>
NOT the fact! I thought it might be of interest for the developers of SANE<br>
that my friend has just crashed its new scanner by using the mustek-backend<br>
of xscanimage with it! Don't misunderstand me: I don't want to bother anyone <br>
here for this. My intention is to warn you not to use (better: not to buy)<br>
this scanner unless there is a backend that knows how to handle this<br>
scanner.<br>
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I will try to give you as much information on this scanner as I can and I<br>
hope that it will be somehow possible to make this scanner work under Linux!<br>
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First thing: It seems that the SCSI-card that comes with the scanner has<br>
changed. Linux isn't able to initialize it. The card is labeled dtct3181 and<br>
has a dtct436e chip on it. It has two jumpers, one to set a waitstae and the<br>
other to change it from being plug-and-run to plug-and-play. When jumpered<br>
plug-n-run (factory default) it isn't recognised by a PnP-Bios. When<br>
jumpered PnP the BIOS and isapnp finds it. The card is however not<br>
initialized by Linux. <br>
I've read everything I could find about the compatibility with ncr53c400(a), <br>
but the kernel (module g_ncr53...) does not seem to see the card at all, <br>
even if I do initialize it with isapnp (seems to work).<br>
All insmod says is: initialization failed, no matter what I choose as<br>
ncr_addr and/or ncr_irq.<br>
I also tried the mustek-patch by I.Baumgart, but this also failed.<br>
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As it is suggested to buy another card for the mustek scanner like e.g. an<br>
NCR 810 we have tried to use the scanner with this card. It is correctly<br>
initialized by the kernel, the scanner is found, everythings should work<br>
just fine...<br>
When my friend started preview from xscanimage on his scanner the thing<br>
went crazy, brutally damaging the moving parts!! I don't know why exactly<br>
this happened but we are afraid, that Mustek changed the protocol of the<br>
scanner.<br>
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So far... Has anyone of you heard of similar experiences? Do you know<br>
someone who uses this model with Linux? Any ideas how to solve this?<br>
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Salut, Sven<br>
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