Hi,
I have a similar problem with a Scanmaker E3 Plus, but, I've found that If
I turn off the scanner, and then turn it back on, it will work for a while.
Bill Suetholz
On 14-Apr-00 Jay Hill wrote:
> Marcel Pol wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just bought today a Microtek Scanmaker 630 with an Adaptec 1502 SCSI card.
>> My first impression is that it works great with Sane.
>>
>> There is one problem though, the SCSI card doesn't work fine for me.
>> I'm using it as a parport scanner at the moment. That's fine, but I would
>> like
>> to try it with the SCSI card.
>>
>> The first time I used it was with a microtek2.conf out of the box.
>> My scanner made an enormous beep while scanning and some other noises.
>>
>> The second time I just got the error:
>> Couldn't start Scanner; i/o error
>>
>> The default interrupt for this card would be no. 10. But my soundcard is
>> already there, so I set the jumper of the scsi card to irq 9.
>> I once heard that irq 9 has someting to do with irq 2, so I hope that's not
>> a
>> problem. I load the module for the card with this command:
>> modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9,7,1
>>
>> And then I get this (seems ok):
>> kernel: aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
>> kernel: aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7,
>> reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended
>> translation=disabled
>> kernel: aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
>> kernel: scsi1 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.7 $
>> kernel: scsi : 2 hosts.
>> kernel: Vendor: Model: Scanner 600A4 Rev: 2.21
>> kernel: Type: Scanner ANSI
>> SCSI revision: 02
>> kernel: Detected scsi generic sgc at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
>>
>> I wonder if I can use irq 9. Irq 12 seems free, maybe I should use that.
>>
>> Also, would it matter, the scsi card looks really cheap, is it worth it, or
>> would it just be as good as using it as a parport scanner?
>>
>> Thanks for the direction,
>>
>> ----------------
> Marcel, I've also been getting IO errors with my Microtek scanner. My
> model is the ScanMaker V6usl. I haven't tried the setting on my scsi
> card, because it works fine from the NT partition of my hard drive.
>
> Here's the message I sent to this list last week, but I haven't gotten
> any response to it:
>
> This is on Red Hat 6.1, with SANE installed, I think. I start
> xscanimage, and the xscanimage application opens. xscanimage also
> prints info to the terminal window, and there it says it recognizes the
> make & model of the scanner (Mikrotek ScanMaker V6USL). I haven't made
> any changes to any SANE or xscanimage configuration files. When I try
> and actually "Acquire Preview" or "Scan," it says there is an error,
> that it "Failed to start scanner: Error during device I/O." The info in
> the terminal window says:
>
> " 0: f00005ffffffe91f 0000000024000000 ........ ....$...
> 16: 2a00030000610060 0000000001000200 *....a.` ........
> 32: 030004000500 ......
> "
>
> The scanner & SCSI card work on the NT partition of this disk, so I
> assume the card is okay. Do I need to make a change in one of the SANE
> files or the xscanimage files? I've poked around a bit in some of them,
> but I haven't seen anything obvious.
>
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