Hi, On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 03:32:50PM +0200, abel deuring wrote: > > Can you confirm that all that sane-find-scanner does is query the card, > > with only requests that must be safe according to the SCSI standard? > > "grep sanei_scsi_cmd sane-find-scanner.c" shows that sanei_scsi_cmd is > called only two times; in both cases an INQUIRY command is sent to the > device.
If only sane-find-scanner is used (not scanimage) there are only these two commands sent to each existing SCSI device (/dev/sg*). If both /dev/sga and /dev/sg0 exits, the device may be querried twice but not more. I would be sirprised if that's really the cause of the problem. If you (the original author) used a very old version of SANE it might be possible that a bad link destroys data, e.g. "/dev/scanner -> /dev/sda". I have never actually tried if that really "works". But checking if there is a link /dev/scanner shouldn't harm. I have never heard of anyone else having problems with sane-find-scanner and hard discs or disc arrays. Bye, Henning