Re: Re: 6000SP: failed to open device /dev/sg0 invalid argument

michael brunsteiner (a8805193@unet.univie.ac.at)
Sun, 13 Dec 1998 21:58:46 +0100

"Dr. Andreas Bolsch" wrote:
>
> What about permissions for /dev/sg0? Did you attempt
> to scan as root or another user. And what shows up
> when doing 'ls -l /dev/sg0'?
>

ls -l /dev/sg0 says:

mic:/home/mic # ls -l /dev/sg0
crw-rw---- 1 root users 21, 0 Jul 26 21:45 /dev/sg0

should work that way, shouldn't it ?
i tried scanning as user as well as
as root ... relult is the same:
doing 'scanimage -L' nothing at all happens, i.e. the program starts
but no action - not even an error-message - takes place)

in addition to:

>my scanner (Mustek 6000SP) used to work well under
>linux (2.0.35, SUSE) with a AHA1492-SCSI-adapter
>and the sane-mustek backend.
>
>now after not using it for quite a while i turned
>the scanner on, and started the computer
>the scsi-device was detected ... i.e.
>'less /prov/scsi/scsi' says:
>
>Attached devices:
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> Vendor: SCANNER Model: Rev: 1.00
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
>
>just as it did when the scanner still worked.
>
>giving the command 'xscanimage' nothing happens at all
>
>when i say 'xscanimage /dev/sg0' a window opens saying:
>
>'failed to open device /dev/sg0 invalid argument'
>
>i did not change any hardware components since the scanner
>worked the last time nor did i install any software
>which one comy scanner (Mustek 6000SP) used to work well under
>linux (2.0.35, SUSE) with a AHA1492-SCSI-adapter
>and the sane-mustek backend.
>
>now after not using it for quite a while i turned
>the scanner on, and started the computer
>the scsi-device was detected ... i.e.
>'less /prov/scsi/scsi' says:
>
>Attached devices:
>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> Vendor: SCANNER Model: Rev: 1.00
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
>
>just as it did when the scanner still worked.
>
>giving the command 'xscanimage' nothing happens at all
>
>when i say 'xscanimage /dev/sg0' a window opens saying:
>
>'failed to open device /dev/sg0 invalid argument'
>
>i did not change any hardware components since the scanner
>worked the last time nor did i install any software
>which one could expact to interfere with a scanner-device
>
>if anyone has got an idea, what the reason could be
>for this desaster please tell me !
>
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Michael Brunsteiner
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