Just received a free Mustek 1200 CU scanner. ;) It doesn't work with our current package, but works pretty nicely with the mustek_usb backend from current sane CVS. We should probably add it to the package.
SANE 1.0.6 will be released in a little over a month. This bug will automatically get closed when I update to that.
By the way, doesn't this have the same permission issues as gphoto2?
This is included in sane-backends-1.0.6-1. Does it work with your scanner? Do you need to do anything as root to get it to work?
*ping*
Closing.