plustek: Parport communication issues
Subject:
Re: Parport communication issues
From:
Mark Bratcher ####@####.####
Date:
7 Jun 2001 17:48:00 -0000
Message-Id: <3B1FBE4E.8CA70BCE@rochester.rr.com>
Gert Menke wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:47:02AM -0400, kevin wrote:
> > Strange. I scanned with my 9636T on an AMD k6-3 400, while running
> > seti@home in the background and even tried web-browsing at the
> > same time. The scan speed slowed down somewhat but I did not get
> > image corruption. What mode is your parallel port set to in the
> > BIOS? It should be EPP for best results.
> It is set to EPP.
> But I can't find any noticeable difference between using SPP and EPP.
> And doing something else while scanning does not seem to slow down the scanning
> speed.
>
This appears to be one of those YMMV things.
I have a 9636T on a Pentium II/233MHz system. It simply won't work with EPP
enabled. Gets a corrupted image every time. SPP works great. SPP was recommended
to me by Gerhard Jaeger.
Mark
