Re: scanimage still indicates error during device I/O

From: DStevenson (tech@dgssoftware.co.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 06 2001 - 03:43:44 PDT

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    As root, type,
            rmmod aic7xxx
            insmod aic7xxx_old

    The old driver works me, I was getting the same symptoms with that kernel and
    scanner. It might work for you.

    Dave

    On Friday 06 July 2001 00:17, you wrote:
    > Hello,
    >
    > I am running the 2.4.6 kernel and sane-backends 1.05. As with
    > sane-backends 1.04 I immediately get the following error when I type
    > "scanimage -d hp:/dev/scanner" as root:
    >
    > scanimage: open of device hp:/dev/scanner failed: Error during device I/O
    >
    > I get no sound from the scanner, no light, nothing other than the error
    > message on the screen. If I reboot with the 2.2.18 kernel everything
    > works fine. I am not sure
    > whether there is still a timeout issue as with 1.04, but I do see that
    > sanei_scsi.c has timeout commands everywhere. The line,
    > "req->sgdata.sg3.hdr.timeout = 1000 * 60 * 10;" is present in
    > sanei_scsi.c. Sane-find-scanner indicates the following:
    >
    > sane-find-scanner: found processor "HP C2520A 3644" at device /dev/scanner
    >
    > which seems to indicate a scanner (HP6100C) at /dev/scanner. I am really
    > getting frustrated at this point, but the problem must be with sane and
    > the 2.4 kernel. Does anybody have any ideas on what to try next?
    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Ivan Milos
    >
    >
    >
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