[sane-devel] epson 1250u vs 45-TEST5

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 02:48:18PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Trying out the bt848 option, it captured a blank, 18% grey screen. 
> (theres no antenna feed to the card at the moment so it should have 
> been snow, but what do I know, I'm just a broadcast tv engineer).

Usually it's necessary to set up the v4l card by using e.g. xawtv
before using it with a SANE frontend.

> Then trying the epson gt-7200 (or was the 6800?) it still worked at 
> least in preview mode.

That's with the epson kowa backend? The SANE epson backend does not
support your scanner as far as I know.

> read:Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: scanner.c: open_scanner(1): 
> Unable to access minor data

That one is ok, you can ignore it.

> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: VFS: busy inodes on changed media.
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host > = 0, driver = 08
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current sd00:00: sns = 70  2
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Jan  5 14:37:24 coyote kernel:  unable to read partition table

Huh? This doesn't look good. You don't have a link /dev/scanner
pointing to a SCSi drive? Anyway, the error looks suspicious. 

I have no idea about the other stuff.

Bye,
  Henning