On Thursday 28 June 2001 13:36, you wrote:
> Mandrake Linux 8.0; SANE 1.04-2mdk; HP Scanjet 6200C;
> Adaptec SCIS 2940; device I/O error
>
> Hi -- I'm turning here for help -- I've read all the documentation and
> tried everything that I know how to do, and cannot get past this point. I
> have the above configuration and get a "device I/O error" before a scan
> begin every time now. When I first installed this a few weeks ago, I could
> get it to scan 5-10 scans, and then the error would return. Tesing the
> scanner under Windows shows the hardware is OK. I've seen similar issues
> on the newsgroups, but I have not found a solution to it. According to the
> documentation, all my hardware and software is supported and current.
>
> Advice / help? Thank you! - Andy Lazarewicz
>
> Sequence of commands as follows. Note that after logging in, the command
> "scanimage -L" does not find the scanner on the first try, but finds it on
> all subsequent tries.
>
> [alaz@localhost alaz]find-scanner
> # Note that find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected
> # to a SCSI bus. It will even find scanners that are not supported
> # at all by SANE. It won't find a scanner that is connected to a
> # parallel, USB or other non-SCSI port.
>
> # You may want to run this program as super-user to find all devices.
> # Once you found the scanner devices, be sure to adjust access
> # permissions as necessary.
>
> find-scanner: found processor "HP C6270A 3846" at device /dev/sg0
> find-scanner: found processor "HP C6270A 3846" at device /dev/sga
> [alaz@localhost alaz]scanimage -L
>
> No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different,
> check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the
> find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read teh documentation which
> came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages).
> [alaz@localhost alaz]scanimage -L
> device `hp:/dev/sga' is a Hewlett-Packard C6270A flatbed scanner
> [alaz@localhost alaz]scanimage -d hp:/dev/sga > test.pnm
> scanimage: sane_read: Error during device I/O
> [alaz@localhost alaz]
>
> This same error shows up under the XSANE front-end.
>
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rmmod aic7xxx
insmod aic7xxx_old
do this as root. Then try to scan. Look at this mailing list archive for more
details.
Dave
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