Greetings: I have an HP 6300C scanner (using the SCSI interface; it's device 6 on an Adaptec 2940U2W) with transparency adapter. The machine is running Mandrake 8.1 with custom-compiled Linus 2.4.17 kernel, SANE 1.0.6 with XSane 0.84. A couple of strange things happen regularly (minor problem first):
(1) Xsane can't find the scanner initially. Find-scanner gives: [root@titanic: /home/rcs]$ find-scanner find-scanner: found processor "HP C7670A 3925" at device /dev/scanner find-scanner: found processor "HP C7670A 3925" at device /dev/sg4 find-scanner: found processor "HP C7670A 3925" at device /dev/sge I'm not sure why it's found twice; /dev/scanner is linked thusly: [root@titanic: /home/rcs]$ lsl /dev/scanner lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 16 19:03 /dev/scanner -> /dev/sg4 Running xsane gives the "No devices found" message the FIRST time; the second time it will usually find it. (2) More of a headache: Normal-mode scans work just fine. However, the XPA doesn't work under Xsane at all. After initiating the scan, the XPA light comes on, the scan head moves a bit and then quits; after about two minutes it times out, Xsane gives me a "device I/O error" message, after which the scanner is totally inaccessible; neither Xsane nor find-scanner can find it again unless I reboot Linux. At first I thought it might be a SCSI bus problem, as once XSane hung and I had to kill the process, after which I got a long series of SCSI disk I/O errors, necessitating a reboot. However, I don't believe this is the case. This box also has Windoze 2K on it, which I don't use often but as it had the HP scanner software installed, I fired it up, and it runs the XPA without a hitch. Thoughts?? Any debugging info I can send which might help? Thanks in advance, and thanks for the effort you're putting into this project. -- Bob -- _______________________________ Bob Sully - Malibyte Consulting Simi Valley, California, USA www.malibyte.com "Years of dedication, and a natural inclination" - J. Buffett
