problem with scanner and PCMCIA SCSI card

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1 total messages Started by Olivier Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:00

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Author: Olivier
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 00:00

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Hi
 I've got a brand new film scanner from minolta connected to my laptop via
an Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480A pcmcia card. when I scan at the maximum resolution
offered by the scanner, everything (the pc+windows+scanner) freezes totally
and randomly in the middle of the scanning process and I never recover the
PC until I switch it off and reboot. everything works fine at lower
resolutions.

I've tried the same thing on a Dell laptop using the same scsi card and the
same scanner and it works like a dream. what is wrong with mine? I've tried
lots and lots of things including all the Win98 perfo options, virtual
memory, driver configs, bios settings etc... and I never got at the end of
my scan. I've also tried to connect the scanner on a parallel-scsi
interface, it works fine except you have to wait more than 10 minutes for
the full resolution scan of one negative.
My PC vendor (ARM Computer) for only help told me the AMD K6-2 3D CPU must
be the problem because (they say) it has a well known bug for high transfer
rates and I should swap it for a PII or a Pentium MMX.  I did'nt find
anything on the net about this "AMD bug". do you know ? or could it be just
a Win98 driver problem? a config problem? or a BIOS problem? a cardbus
problem? or really a K6-2 problem? any help would be great!

many thanks

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