Connecting a scanner to A2000

I saw an old HP Scanjet on ebay for only one dollar! Then I saw some Amiga software for Art Department that was specifically for that scanner so I thought it would be fun to see if I could actually get a scanner working on my old A2000.
So I won both the items, I think for $10 total. They didn't even charge me postage for the scanner which weighed like a small child!
After installing the software and hooking up the scanner to SCSI, setting the SCSI ID#, etc. I've got it to "see" the scanner but what's happening is that it starts to scan, the light inside the scanner bed comes on and then.... it just hangs there. The software seems frozen. I can still move the mouse pointer around but none of the buttons work and I can't quit the program unless I restart the computer.
Anyone have an idea? I'm using the 2091 Amiga hard drive card for the SCSI hookup. I've tried swapping that with a GVP card and it behaves exactly the same. I'm running a 2.04 Kickstart and the same Wokbench. 4MB of expansion RAM which the manual says should be sufficient.
For $10 it's no big loss but it would be cool to get it to work.
 :-?

[Lo]

No idea, but I believe there are other scanner progs on aminet?  See if you get the same results?

[Castellen]

Sounds like some software problem.
Are you sure it's not running out of memory??
When the manual talks about 4Mb fast mem, it's probably meaning 4Mb of
fast mem FREE, not in total.

You usually need a heap of memory while scanning anyway as the
unprocessed bitmap image from the scanner is often held in fast mem.

You could try other software such as BetaScan or FXscan.
Though both of them need about 10mb of fast mem and OS 3.0 minimum.

Make sure the scanner itself is not locked.

You may also want to try "BetaScan" from Aminet.

[Colmiga]

I had this same problem using a Umax Vista S6E scanner with a GVP HC+8 SCSI card and BetaScan in my A4000. The scanner head moved a little bit then stopped when I tried to scan something. I tried updating the ROM of my GVP SCSI card from 3.71 to 4.13 but it made no difference.

I now have a DKB RapidFire SCSI card in my A4000 and it works flawlessly with the scanner.

I'm suspecting the WD SCSI chip common to both the A2091 and GVP boards may be having problems dealing with scanners.

[Lo]

I'm suspecting the WD SCSI chip common to both the A2091 and GVP boards may be having problems dealing with scanners.

I had no problems using an A2000 with GVP '030
50Mhz 8 meg ram, but I'm not sure of the software,
was it called Scantek?

The software itself was a "plug-in" for Art Department Pro. It's just has a generic name like "HPScanjet plug-in" or some such. You can also use it outside Art Department though. It has the same probmlem either way.
I noticed the intaller program added a line into my startup.sequence "HPSCANDEVICE="scsi.device" I don't know if that has any significance.
I actually did try Beta Scan and it would instantly crash my A2000 whenever I'd start it up! Maybe Beta Scan can't run on Kickstart 2.04? Who knows.  :-?

[Castellen]

From the Betascan guide:

System Requirements:
Any Amiga with at least 68020 processor and Kickstart 3.0.

Recommended: at least 8Mb RAM, 50Mb free disk space and a graphics
card with GraphX.


They don't write docs just to take up disk space ya know!

Yeah, maybe the bottom line is my 2000 just isn't powerful enough to run a scanner just yet. Oh well, for $10 it was worth a try. I plan to get the 3.1 Kickstart upgrade and add some meory so maybe later...