Re: [sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-13 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Jeremy Chacon writes: > Thanks, Allan, I'll try that too. Of course, this computer is isolated from > the internet (groan), making upgrades difficult, but not impossible! Seeing that you are using Perfection V600s I am pretty sure you are using the epkowa backend. If so, upgrading

Re: [sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-13 Thread Jeremy Chacon
Ah, thanks Olaf, I am indeed using epkowa. I will update the iscan version. Much appreciated, Jeremy On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:32 AM, Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Jeremy Chacon writes: > > > Thanks, Allan, I'll try that too. Of course, this computer is isolated >

Re: [sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-11 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Nov 10 14:09 Jeremy Chacon wrote (excerpt): ... sometimes gives an I/O Error ... In general "sometimes I/O Error" indicates that the root cause is somehow hardware related where "hardware" means the actual computer hardware plus the computer's built-in firmware (i.e. BIOS or UEFI)

Re: [sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-11 Thread Jeremy Chacon
Hi Johannes, Thanks for your very thorough response! It turned out you were correct, it was a USB issue. The scanners that always worked were connected to USB 2.0 ports, while the scanners that gave trouble were always connected to USB 3.0 ports (xhci_hcd when I did lsusb). Putting all the

Re: [sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-11 Thread m. allan noah
You might find that a kernel and/or a sane-backends upgrade will help that problem. There have been usb improvements in both of those places in the past year. allan On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jeremy Chacon wrote: > Hi Johannes, > > Thanks for your very thorough response!

Re: [sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-11 Thread Jeremy Chacon
Thanks, Allan, I'll try that too. Of course, this computer is isolated from the internet (groan), making upgrades difficult, but not impossible! On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 4:17 PM, m. allan noah wrote: > You might find that a kernel and/or a sane-backends upgrade will help >

[sane-devel] multiple, identical scanners?

2015-11-10 Thread Jeremy Chacon
Hello, I have been using sane to scan with an Epson v600 Perfection. scanimage works great with one or two scanners connected, I simply have to identify the address with scanimage -L and then use the entire device address when choosing the correct scanner. However, we've now purchased two more