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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Has anyone used HSD's PowerScan software?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.014141.16149@macc.wisc.edu>
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <By2urK.ME@newcastle.ac.uk> <1992Nov23.003101.5674@tetrasoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 01:41:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov23.003101.5674@tetrasoft.com> Joseph R.
- Grace <JGrace@TetraSoft.com> writes:
-
- ]Beware the SCSI chain flaking out or the scanner overheating (at "104" degrees
- ]_internally_, e.g., 90 degrees room temperature (the scanner is self-heating
- ]since it has an internal fluorescent bulb which is always on when the scanner
- ]is on)).
-
- What!?! What a waste of energy! I'm glad to learn this before
- I buy, rather than after, but I was all set to plunk down my
- money. I would appreciate reports, pro or con, about problems
- with HSD scanners.
-
- ]In my experience, either of these problems while using PowerScan
- ]reduces your NeXT to a hung PC --- it hard core hangs (all applications freeze,
- ]menus won't activate, keyboard is ignored; I believe even the NMI keys don't
- ]work!).
- ]
- ]I get the impression the scanner or PowerScan is/are (somehow) hanging the SCSI
- ]bus (thus effectively disabling all SCSI devices, including the hard disks
- ]:-(). I think this problem causes all unsaved and unsync'ed (by the OS) work
- ]to be lost --- even that of other applications or any background processes.
- ]Needless to say, PowerScan does not deal gracefully with scanner SCSI
- ]communications problems.
- ]
- ]So, now before using PowerScan, I disconnect my modem (so I don't lose incoming
- ]information, e.g., e-mail), and save all my work in other applications. Of
- ]course, now my NeXTstation becomes no more than a flakey, single-tasking PC,
- ]but so it goes to use my scanner... Also, I leave my scanner off when not in
- ]use.
-
- Has anyone else had these problems?
-
- ]I reported this problem to HSD (most recently on 20 October). I have no idea
- ]what (if any) progress is being made to solve it.
-
- ]If anybody can shed more light on these problems (or even has solutions, heaven
- ]forbid :-), please let me know!
-
- How about it, HSD?
-
- --
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