Re: UMAX 1200S Astra hangs, then resumes

Oliver Rauch (oliver.rauch@Wolfsburg.DE)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:22:07 +0100

Chris Burns wrote:

>
>
> However,
> scanimage -d umax:/dev/sga > test.pnm
> is a different matter. The scanner starts to san about 2 inches, then
> stops and scanimage hangs. At first, we thought it had crashed, but
> then discovered if we left it for 10-12 minutes, it would resume scanning
> and give us the image! In /var/log/messages, however, we found the
> following:
>
> Dec 7 16:04:44 mandragona kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 100, scsi1, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
>
> Being somewhat new to SCSI and sane, I'm not sure whether this is a problem
> with aic7xxx.o or sane, so I'm posting to both mail lists in hopes that
> someone out there has suggestions. BTW, the scanner works fine in Windoze.
>
>

Hi Chris,

you can try to disable command-queeing and reconnect/disconnect for the scsi-driver-module.

Did you terminate the scsi-bus correctly?
This can cause such problems, too!

Bye
Oliver

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