After doing a bit more research, I realized that the hp backend is no
longer maintained. So I went to "Plan B" and coded a retry loop in my
scanning script, which waits for the scanner to "come to its senses" after
an end-of-file error, and then resumes the scanning.

Thanks anyway,
Marshall

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Marshall Jose <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I've been using a 6200-series scanner to scan piano rolls, which involves
> the repetitious scanning of successive sections of the roll. This process
> worked well for more than a year, but then gradually I got the "Error from
> scsi_read: End of file reached" failure an increasing number of times
> during a roll, to the point now where it's almost unusable.
>
> It's been frustrating to use the sane bug tracker to search for related
> bugs/fixes, so I brought my appeal here, to see if anyone had any
> suggestions. I'm currently running Ubuntu 14.04.3, with their 1.0.14-9
> distro of sane.
>
> Thanks,
> Marshall
>
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