# please help. Microtek v300 device I/O error

From: Doug Wilson (dwilson@virtc.com)
Date: Tue Jul 18 2000 - 10:37:18 PDT

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  I'm relatively new to Linux and this is my first experience with sane.
  I have no programming experience. My girlfriend's company recently gave
  her an old scanner that they replaced and I would like to get it working
  with my Linux machine. Aparrently, the scanner was working well with
  Win98, but ocassionally flaked out requiring a Win reboot.

  I posted a message earlier about this problem and haven't gotten an
  answer yet ... at this point I would appreciate even a flame as long as
  it helps me decide to move in 1 direction or another! :)

  The scanner is a Microtek Scanmaker V300 parallel port scanner. I'm
  running Linux Mandrake 2.2.9-19mdk. It was quite a struggle, but I
  managed to install the ppscsi kernel patches. I can load ppscsi, sg,
  and onscsi with insmod without a problem. When I run 'scanimage -d
  microtek2:/dev/sga', however, I get "Error during device I/O." I looked
  through the san-devel mailing list archives and found that someone else
  had a similar problem, but I never saw an answer ... just advice to set
  SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK2=30 and publish the results. I did that.

  Here are the last few lines of output, where the errors are displayed:
  ...
  [microtek2] dump_area: SenseBuffer
  0: f00005ffffffe91f 0000000024000000 ........ ....$...
  16: 2800830060000000 0000000102030405 (...`... ........
  32: 060708090a0b ......
  [microtek2] scsi_sense_handler: info: ' f'
  [microtek2] scsi_sense_handler: Invalid field in CDB
  [microtek2] scsi_read_image_status: 'Error during device I/O'
  [microtek2] scsi_wait_for_image: 'Error during device I/O'
  [microtek2] cleanup_scanner: ms=0x80561b0
  scanimage: sane_start: Error during device I/O
  [microtek2] sane_cancel: handle=0x80561b0
  [microtek2] cleanup_scanner: ms=0x80561b0
  [microtek2] sane_close: ms=0x80561b0
  [microtek2] cleanup_scanner: ms=0x80561b0
  [microtek2] sane_exit:
  [microtek2] sane_get_devices: local_only=0
  [microtek2] sane_get_devices: sd_list_freed
  [microtek2] sane_exit: MICROTEK2 says goodbye.

  Does anyone have any ideas? Am I doing something completely stupid?
  Does no-one have an answer for this problem? Is the scanner hardware
  bad and should I just chuck it and forget about it?

  As I wrote before, any answer at all would be appreciated.

  Also, if anyone knows a way that I can search the mailing list archives
  I'd be happy to do that, but I didn't see a method for doing so.

  Thanks.

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