Comment 25 for bug 83957

Can confirm this problem to still exist in Ubuntu 11.04. The noise is terrifying but as I had my share of "scanner lockups" from Ubuntu 8.04 to 11.04 (sometimes it actually works, 50/50 chance) I can say that it never really broke the scanner.

Thats not saying that I wouldn't like to have this problem fixed after all those years. I may finally be able to dump my Windows partition once scanning is reliable, but this bug keeps me from doing so. Just in case this gives someone out there some extra motivation... ;)