[sane-devel] epson 1200 usb hangs

[Roy Murphy]

'Twas brillig when Bob scrobe:
> I hope this is the right place for this question.  I am running Mandrake Freq 
> August 10, 2001.  I've got an Epson 1200U.  I downloaded the latest front and 
> backends and compiled with no errors.  I shut down and restarted.  When I 
> started xsane, it found my scanner and let me do a preview.  When I tried to 
> finish the scan, it hung about half way through.  Where it hangs varies.  I 
> was scanning at 600 dpi a 35 meg file onto a vfat partition.  I shut the 
> computer down and restarted.  I was able to scan about 10 pictures.  Then it 
> hung again. Now when I restart it will sometimes hang during the preview, 
> sometimes hang during the final scan.  I've got a gig free on the /tmp drive 
> and 15 gigs free on the target drive.  I've run into the same problems as 
> root and as an everyday user.  Sometimes I can scan 20 or 30 photos with no 
> problems, and others I can't scan at all no matter what I do.  Once it hangs, 
> I've never been able to get it back.   I've tried stopping and restarting the 
> usb and usbd services.  cat /proc/bus/usb/devices shows the scanner there 
> whether it is hung or not.
> 
> Scanning under windows works, but the scans simply aren't as nice and the 
> autoincrement feature is great.
> 
> Any ideas of what to check?

Does it work any better at 300 dpi?  If so, it sounds like my problem.

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