Re: filmscanners: Canon Flatbed D2400UF

["Eddie Cairns" <glenside@cwcom.net>]

The speed of the PCI bus is at best 33Meg so unless the firewire socket is
integrated on the motherboard there is an other possible bottleneck!

> Firewire is 400Mbit per sec (50MB) max , USB is 12Mbit max per sec
(1.5MB).
>
> Steve
>
> P.S. How the hell would you process a 6GB image!
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <glenside@cwcom.net>
> To: <filmscanners@halftone.co.uk>
> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 12:58 PM
> Subject: filmscanners: Canon Flatbed D2400UF
>
>
> > A few people on the list have mentioned this scanner. PCWORLD the US
> magazine
> > not the UK store has a test of it at
> > http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,44621,00.asp
> >
> > They claim that the USB interface is much slower than a SCSI or Firewire
> interface
> > and this causes it to get a lower score. I have seen this remark a few
> times
> > in scanner test recently. How can they say this when they obviously have
> not
> > tested the scanner with a Firewire interface. it could be the scanner
that
> is
> > the bottleneck not the interface.
> >
> > Or is this being picky
> >
> >
> > Eddie Cairns
> >
>