scanimage: Error during device I/O

[t t <gambarimasu+spammersmightnotnoticethis@gmail.com>]

Any ideas what causes this?

$ scanimage -v -y 279.4 --mode lineart --resolution 300 \
>         --batch-scan=yes --batch=aaa--%02d--line300.pnm
Scanning -1 pages, incrementing by 1, numbering from 1
Scanning page 1
scanimage: sane_start: Error during device I/O
scanimage: read 0 bytes in total
Scanned page 1. (scanner status = 9)

/var/log/messages:

Nov 15 22:37:31 debian kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_BULK failed dev 8 ep 0x83 len 6 ret -110
Nov 15 22:37:31 debian last message repeated 23 times

Details:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=272304

My scanner is almost completely useless now because I have to power
cycle it several times to get a single stack of documents scanned.

Thanks!