Re: Microtek ScanMaker E3 -> crashes the computer

From: John Fremlin (vii@penguinpowered.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 10:14:16 PDT

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Claude Lefrancois <lefranco@cae.ca> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to bring a Microtek ScanMaker E3 to work under RedHat
> Linux 6.2 (Kernel 2.2.12-6.0.1smp). My computer is a dual capable

[...]

> The problem occurs when I try to make the scanner works. If I run a
> scanner program (scanimage), I can ear the scanner doing some sort of
> initialisation routines and then the scanner stops forever. The
> program never returns and after some SCSI timeout the computer
> experiences a kernel crash and the whole system hangs. I enabled the

This happened a lot when developing the Microtek2 USB driver.

Kernel crash means kernel bug (possibly in the SCSI host controller
driver, I know, our virtual USB one did it a lot). Have you tried a
devel kernel or just a non-SMP enabled one?

(Speak to linux-scsi about it.)

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