Re: Microtek2 X6EL problems

Larry Snyder (larrys@lexis-nexis.com)
Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:06:29 -0500 (EST)

Eric Galluzzo <eng@one.net> wrote:
> Hello! :)
>
> My system hangs when trying to scan an image using xscanimage --
> usually. I've got an Adaptec AVA-2902E PCI SCSI card (I'm using the
> aic7xxx kernel module -- is this correct?) and a Microtek Scanmaker X6EL
> with RedHat 5.1 and kernel 2.2.13, using microtek2 backend 0.8.
>
> The symptoms are:
>
> * Very occasionally, when I try to insert the aic7xxx kernel module,
> the system hangs. In addition, it always locks up for a couple of
> seconds while inserting the module but comes back out again fine.
> (I assume this is normal.)
> * The scanner is detected by the SCSI module just fine:
>
> [After typing "/sbin/modprobe aic7xxx":]
> tail /var/log/messages
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 10/0
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 406 instructions downloaded
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.20/3.2.4
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: Vendor: Model: scanner 636EL Rev: 1.50
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Nov 30 20:08:27 eng kernel: Detected scsi generic sga at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> eric@eng:/home/eric> cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> Vendor: Model: scanner 636EL Rev: 1.50
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>
> * However, when I enter xscanimage and actually try to scan an image,
> the system (usually) hangs. Only two times have I gotten the
> scanner to actually scan something. One of those times, it scanned
> several images before hanging; the other time, it just scanned one.
>
> I tried to produce debug output via "xscanimage | tee saneoutput.txt"

Try script <filename> or maybe xscanimage > <filename> 2>&1

> with SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK2 set to 30 and SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI set to 1,
> but I guess it never flushed, because I ended up with a zero-length file
> (but piles of stuff spewed onto the screen).
>
> Anyway, any help you could give is very much welcome. My wife is
> threatening to take back the scanner if it doesn't start working
> reliably in the next couple of days. ;)
>
> - Eric
>
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