<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#2e3436" link="#2a76c6" vlink="#2e3436"><pre>Another experiment with hp 7400c:</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>On a very recent Fedora live system, the scanner could be found and started scanning, but threw the I/O error as well. However, the machine's USB bus was not blocked, I could countinue working.</pre><pre>Is it true, that this very much looks like a more kernel related issue?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Greetings,</pre><pre>Wolf</pre></body></html>