Roger> I'm writing sane-support for the Tamarack SCSI scanner. I had
Roger> the same problem: my NCR810 driver would report an "NCR DEAD"
Roger> when I tried to scan a slightly non-trivial amount of data.
Roger> Initially I increased the timeout to one minute. However
Roger> nowadays, my driver simply reduces the scan-size to at most
Roger> an inch at a time. The Tamarack takes less than 10 seconds
Roger> to scan an inch, so there is no problem. This way I can run a
Roger> standard kernel. (well almost).
Roger> Mustec maintainers: This might also be applicable for the
Roger> mustec backend....
Hmmh, I don't think I would want to _force_ this behavior, since it
would slow down scanning by quite a bit. However, maybe we could put
an option into mustek.conf that lets you limit the maximum distance
scanned in one chunk. Then we can distribute SANE with a mustek.conf
that is safe for owners of an unpatched Linux ncr810 driver. This
leaves the option of getting back the old behavior when it's known to
be safe.
--david
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