[sane-devel] sane SCSI lockup with anything other than binary mode

[Carter Brey]

Henning Meier-Geinitz wrote:

>
>Kernel oops. Run the output through ksymoops and contact the linux
>kernel mailing list. But check the archives before, maybe it's already
>solved in a current kernel.
>
>It may well be triggered by the driver not expecting "big" buffers.
>However, i thought this kind of bug has been solved long time ago.
>Anyway, you could try seeting the environment variable
>SANE_SG_BUFFERSIZE to 32768 before running a SANE frontend to decrease
>the buffer size.
>
>Bye,
>  Henning
>
Dear Henning,

This was indeed the solution. Thank you so much.

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