Hi, On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 12:58:24PM +0300, Max Ushakov wrote: > And last, a stupid question. If I buy such a scanner, make it > work with Vuescan, and do a full dump of SCSI dialog during > scan, or multiple scans -- will it help me or somebody to make > at least some open source support for ScanWit?
Probably yes. > Or this is too hard, This depends on how complicated the protocoll is. If it's rather high-level it won't be too complicated (e.g. set_scan_window, set_parameters, start_scan, get_data, stop_scan). Low-level protocolls may be more time-consuming (move_motor_one_step, set_ccd_poarameters). > or this is ``reverse engineering'' and so unlawful, or > what? I'm not sure if it's reverse engineering. I would call disassembling reverse engineering but that depends on definition. Concerning lawfull, this depends on your country's laws :-) Technicaly speaking it's not too hard to add a bit more debug output to the kernel sg driver to put out all the commands and data send to a SCSI device. Bye, Henning
