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<h1>Scanner died? or SCSI?</h1>
<b>Gordon Scott</b> (<a href="mailto:gordon@apis.demon.co.uk"><i>gordon@apis.demon.co.uk</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:06:26 +0100 (BST)</i>
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Hi,<br>
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This isn't really a sane issue, but I'm not presently sure where<br>
else to go for help.  I'm *hoping* there's a nice answer to this.<br>
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My scanner (AGFA SnapScan 600 on its AHA1505AE) just stopped<br>
mid-scan and try as I may I can't get it to come back. I suspect<br>
that there is a hard fault (is there any way I can test that?).<br>
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Since it died I've tried various tricks to bring it back to<br>
life including "echo add-single-etc...", "echo remove-...",<br>
reboots, and so on. Mostly these appear to do nothing significant.<br>
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BTW, I've always had a problem with the scsi-generic driver<br>
attaching the scanner to /dev/sga at bootup, rather than<br>
/dev/sgg, so I add the scanner later using the "echo" trick.<br>
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My suspicion that the scanner itself may be sick is fuelled by<br>
the following entries from syslog.<br>
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When it worked....<br>
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-----------8&lt;-----------------------------------------------------<br>
Dec  7 15:32:19 mellifera linux:   Vendor: AGFA      Model: SNAPSCAN 600      Rev: 1.20<br>
Dec  7 15:32:19 mellifera linux:   Type:   Scanner                            ANSI SCSI revision: 02<br>
-----------8&lt;-----------------------------------------------------<br>
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Now it doesn't work....<br>
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-----------8&lt;-----------------------------------------------------<br>
Apr 19 17:52:01 mellifera linux:   Vendor:           Model:                   Rev:     <br>
Apr 19 17:52:01 mellifera linux:   Type:   Scanner                            ANSI SCSI revision: 02<br>
-----------8&lt;-----------------------------------------------------<br>
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So it can see it's scanner, but can't actually get an ident<br>
from it.  Any idea what's going on here, how I can check things,<br>
or where I should look/go for help?<br>
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Thanks, regards,<br>
		Gordon.<br>
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