[sane-devel] Normal or destructive behaviour when starting SANE?

[Melanie]

Hello,

On 2003.03.14 14:00 Alisdair wrote:
> 1. The scanner spends about 15 seconds making rather worrying grinding 
> noises (the scan head does not move at this time);

I have the same scanner and I cannot reproduce your problem. With my 
system, the scanner will start up by blinking it's light and not move the 
head at all. The first head movement is the start of scanning.
I am using the "scanner" kernel module, not libusb.

Melanie