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<h1>Re: Regular Crashes with Sane, HP3C and Promise SCSI-Card on Linux</h1>
<b>Peter Kirchgessner</b> (<a href="mailto:peter@kirchgessner.net"><i>peter@kirchgessner.net</i></a>)<br>
<i>Tue, 05 Jan 1999 07:44:26 +0100</i>
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"Marc Roman Wäckerlin" wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Hi there,</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; There are regulary complete system crashes when using scanimage or</i><br>
<i>&gt; xscanimage with my HP3C scanner on a Promise Technology SCSI card</i><br>
<i>&gt; driven by NCR53C8XX (BSD) driver.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; The larger the image is, the more often the crash occurs, i think.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; A complete system crash means that nothing at all works any more:</i><br>
<i>&gt;  - ctrl-alt-back does not work</i><br>
<i>&gt;  - cursor does not move anymore</i><br>
<i>&gt;  - ping to this machine gets no more answer</i><br>
<i>&gt;  - ...</i><br>
<i>&gt; The only way to get aout is a hard reset :-(.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Unfortunately i see no chance to scan any image without this high</i><br>
<i>&gt; risk.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Today i upgraded sane from an older release (0.75 or so) to 1.0 and it</i><br>
<i>&gt; still crashes.</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Any idea, help, workaround?</i><br>
<i>&gt; </i><br>
<i>&gt; Thank you</i><br>
<i>&gt; regards</i><br>
<i>&gt; Marc</i><br>
<i>&gt;</i><br>
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Hi,<br>
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please try to download version 0.72 of the hp-backend from<br>
<a href="http://www.kirchgessner.net">http://www.kirchgessner.net</a> along with another patch available<br>
on that page. The backend has a bug-fix which caused<br>
a segmentation fault.<br>
But I am quite sure that this does not solve the problem.<br>
scanimage and xscanimage are application programs which should<br>
never cause the system to crash. The program make crash itself.<br>
But if the system crashes, it might be a problem with the systems<br>
SCSI driver.<br>
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--Peter<br>
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