Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-27 Thread Vincent Cleij
I am using SilverFast (v4.2.8r02) with my Nikon LS30 film scanner. When scanning a negative or slide on 2700 dpi with ICE the computer cannot process the data fast enough so that the LS30 makes a smooth scan. It makes the scan with small irregular steps. When scanning with VueScan (6.11) this prob

Re: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-28 Thread =shAf=
Vincent writes ... > I am using SilverFast (v4.2.8r02) with my Nikon LS30 film scanner. When > scanning a negative or slide on 2700 dpi with ICE the computer cannot > process the data fast enough so that the LS30 makes a smooth scan. ... > ... My computer has a 400 MHz Pentium II processor and a

Re: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-28 Thread Ralf Schmode
Vincent Cleij wrote: > I am using SilverFast (v4.2.8r02) with my Nikon LS30 film scanner. When > scanning a negative or slide on 2700 dpi with ICE the computer cannot > process the data fast enough so that the LS30 makes a smooth scan. It makes > the scan with small irregular steps. When scannin

Re: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-29 Thread Rob Geraghty
=shAf= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One can wonder if comparisons can be made, but I use a LS-2000 > with a PII/350 ... and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller and two Seagate > LVD drives, and have never seen a hint of this problem. I'd say that your hard drives help a *great* deal. Once I get my

OT: RE: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-29 Thread Bruce Roberts
OT: > -Original Message- > > I'd say that your hard drives help a *great* deal. Once I get my computer > working with UDMA66 Now that's my area of expertise! Can I help? The most obvious thing that most people don't realise is that DMA must be turned on in the device manager in Win9x (

Re: OT: RE: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-09-30 Thread Arthur Entlich
Bruce Roberts wrote: > > OT: > > > -Original Message- > > > > I'd say that your hard drives help a *great* deal. Once I get my computer > > working with UDMA66 > > Now that's my area of expertise! Can I help? > > The most obvious thing that most people don't realise is that DMA must

RE: OT: RE: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-10-02 Thread Bruce Roberts
G'day. I'm not sure if this will help but here goes... :-) Arthur Entlich wrote: > I was just on the Adaptec website yesterday, and was rather annoyed to > find out they want DMA "unchecked" on all devices when using their Easy > Creator software to write CD-Rs to prevent write problems. On th

Re: OT: RE: Processor speed with the Nikon LS30

2000-10-03 Thread Arthur Entlich
Bruce Roberts wrote: > I was a bit confused by the "all" devices that you mention so I checked > their site. I use the same software but my CD-RW is a SCSI device so I don't > have this problem. What they say is to disable DMA on the IDE channel that > the CD-R is on. This is OK for most people