[sane-devel] 'scanimage -L' fails first time with modular SCSI drivers

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:40:24PM +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Linux, when the SCSI drivers are compiled modular, 'scanimage -L'
> fails unless they modules are loaded.

I can't reproduce this here:
device mustek:/dev/sg0' is a Mustek ScanExpress 12000SP Plus flatbed scanner

I'm using Linux 2.4.17-rc1 (no devfs). I have the following line in
modules.conf: 

alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx

I have no link /dev/scanner.

aic7xxx and sg are loaded when sane-find-scanner is called. It takes
about 10 seconds but the result is ok. Maybe in your case sanei_scsi
runs into a timeout?

> Curiously enough, if I create a link /dev/scanner -> sg0, I don't see
> this behaviour and the first 'scanimage -L' succeeds.

Does the first "scanimage -L" print both /dev/scanner and /dev/sg0?

You may get more info with "SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=255 sane-find-scanner".

Bye,
  Henning