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<h1>Re: Opinion about SCSI scanner with FreeBSD</h1>
<b>German Jose Gomez Garcia</b> (<a href="mailto:german@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es"><i>german@pinon.ccu.uniovi.es</i></a>)<br>
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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Charles Henri-Pierre wrote:<br>
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<i>&gt; Hello, </i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; I want to buy an SCSI scanner for my home computer.  (FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE, </i><br>
<i>&gt; P2BS mother board (S for SCSI), PII 333Mhz) Two question in the FreeBSD </i><br>
<i>&gt; mailing list show that they are some problems with cheap (broken) SCSI </i><br>
<i>&gt; interface.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
	I had bought and AGFA Snapscan 1236 SCSI, and it was my worst <br>
nightmare. I own a Supermicro P6DBU (dual PII + U2W SCSI) and I was not <br>
able to make it work using my own controller. The problems started <br>
because the scanner does not support Sync SCSI, and although I had always <br>
thought that SCSI setup itself in a per-device basis it only work if I <br>
disable sync mode in every other device on the same bus.<br>
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	Anyway even disabling it the scanner was too broken to work, lots<br>
of timeouts and SCSI resets got me to give it back, fortunately they<br>
return me my money. So my advice is that if you really need a scanner you<br>
should consider spending those extra dollars on a reliable one, I spent<br>
almost three days (for a total of about twenty hours) trying to make it<br>
works, with no result. <br>
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	The AGFA Snapscan 1236 is a medium scanner, I mean it is not an <br>
HP 6xxx but it is better than a $50 parport one.<br>
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	If you finally get a cheap one (~ $200) that works with an <br>
onboard Adaptec SCSI controller (and it is supported under Linux/FreeBSD, <br>
of course) please tell me about it.<br>
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	- german<br>
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