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[Larry Grover]

Matthias Heiler wrote:
> hagen van rissenbeck <news4didascali at gmx.net> writes:
> 
> 
>>Hi.
>>
>>I recommend Epson.
> 
> 
> I heard the same recommendation, got an old Epson Photo 2450
> (supposedly supported by SANE) from ebay and it did not work at all
> with Linux.  My bug report is here: http://tinyurl.com/bpgvr It seems
> to me that one has to have a certain amount of luck to get Linux and
> Scanners working together reliably. :(


At home we have what I believe is the very same scanner (Epson 
Perfection 2450 Photo - with both USB and firewire interfaces).  We 
had problems connecting the scanner via USB, but it works perfectly 
using firewire (this is on an x86, Ubuntu Hoary system).

Just to verify that it is actually the same model, here are the 
results of scanimage -L, and sane-find-scanner:

sleeveless at panther:~$ scanimage -L
device `epson:/dev/sg1' is a Epson GT-9700 flatbed scanner

sleeveless at panther:~$ sane-find-scanner
found SCSI processor "EPSON GT-9700 1.05" at /dev/sg1


...and from /var/log/messages, when the scanner is powered on:

Oct  4 21:31:30 panther kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 
SBP-2 Devices
Oct  4 21:31:52 panther kernel: sbp2: probe of 00004800001c58b3-0 
failed with error -16
Oct  4 21:31:52 panther ieee1394.agent[17910]:      sbp2: already loaded
Oct  4 21:31:52 panther kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 
SBP-2 Devices
Oct  4 21:31:53 panther kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
Oct  4 21:31:53 panther kernel:   Vendor: EPSON     Model: GT-9700 
        Rev: 1.05
Oct  4 21:31:53 panther kernel:   Type:   Processor 
        ANSI SCSI revision: 06
Oct  4 21:31:53 panther kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi3, 
channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 3


Have you tried using firewire to connect your scanner?  If not, it may 
be worth your while to try.  This is really a pretty nice scanner, and 
at least for us, works flawlessly with firewire.

Regards,
Larry