[sane-devel] Partition table gets altered

Oliver Rauch oliver.rauch@rauch-domain.de
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:22:33 +0100


Jani Salonen wrote:
> 
> Hei,
> 
> I'm not sure is this problem caused by XSane or some SCSI module, but when I
> start XSane without my scanner (Epson perfection 1640) turned on or
> disconnected, the partition table of my HD messes up, and there is no any
> partitions visible anymore. although this can be fixed afterwards with fdisk,
> but is there any clue what really causes this? I've tried reproduce the
> problem with Adapted 29160 and Tekram 390F boards, and result is the same, a
> HD without a partition table. 2.4.7-10 kernel were used, with sym53??? (for
> Tekram) and aic7xxx (for Adaptec) SCSI modules.

Where does /dev/scanner point to, what are the scsi ids of your scanner and harddisk?

Which sane version do you use?

Bye
Oliver

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