Re: segfault with Microtek Scanmaker 330

Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooij@caiw.nl)
Sun, 2 Aug 1998 07:49:50 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Norman Uhlmann wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Bernd Schroeder wrote:
>
> > Good to hear that a mode exists that works for you. However, the
> > problem that the backend returns an error for bigger buffer sizes still
> > exists.
>
> No it doesn't :-))
> sane-0.74
> #define SG_BIG_BUFF 131072
>
> and I am able to scan :-))
>
> > > After that I got brave and compiled with
> > > sg.h #define SG_BIG_BUFF 512000 but
> > > it doesn't work :-((.
> >
> > To my knowledge the maximum value for SG_BIG_BUFF is 128KB - 0.5KB.
>
> Okay that's the way I have to understand the SCSI-HOWTO :-)
> + generic header as well as the command block on input. SG_BIG_BUFF can
> + be safely increased upto (131072 - 512).
> though it is 512000bytes :-)
>
> Okay, but in sane-0.74 there is no support for ScanMaker 330, but it
> is no problem.
> Here is the diff output, but I don't know how to build a patch with it.
> Perhaps someone can do it for me :-?

How to make a patch:

Copy the original sane directory recursivly:
cp -R sane-0.74 sane-0.74.old

Edit all files as needed in the sane-0.74 tree.

Create a unified diff recursivly:
diff -urN sane-0.74.old sane-0.74 > sane-0.74_mypatch

And you're set.

Hugo.

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