Respected Henning! Inform me, please, that I should to you inform on the scanner Spot ScanTak 2c. I hope, that my information will for many be useful, and also, that a series of these scanners will be not long in the list not supported SANE. I wait for your answer.
Regards Alex (Oleksiy O. Loktev). 14.05.03 12:06:44, Henning Meier-Geinitz <henn...@meier-geinitz.de> wrote: >Hi, > >On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 08:12:12AM +0300, Alex wrote: >> Answer, please a question. Why the developers of a package SANE have >> not included support of scanners ScanTak 2c/3c of firm Spot Technology. > >That's easy: I didn't know that there is a backend for that scanner >already. If there is one and it conforms to our guidelines, we'll be >happy to include it. > >> In spite of the fact that firm-manufacturer already is not present, >> rather plenty of similar scanners all still is on a service at the >> users. And as shows search on appropriate forums, many from the users >> have problems for want of to attempt to force these scanners to work in >> OS Linux. By one from such users am also I. > >So there are plenty of people who support you in writing the backend. >You'll get help concerning SANE standard issues or other questions on >this list but basically it's up to you or any other owner of such a >scanner to write the backend. See also: >http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/unsupported.html > >> These scanners have the own SCSI-adapter (16 bit ISA), but visually to >> determine a type chipset it is not obviously possible. Programm the >> utilities (for example, pnpdump from Linux Red Hat 7.3 or ISA >> Configuration Utility from MS DOS6.22) - are powerless. They refuse >> even to find the appropriate adapter, though in User's Manual to the >> scanner is written: > >To make sure that it's really a SCSI card you could connect the >scanner to a "real" SCSI adapter an check if it's detected. > >> Further I in a research of this problem was not advanced and I hope to >> receive the help from you, respected developers SANE. > >Until there is a backend, I'll add these scanners to our lists as >"unsupported". > >Bye, > Henning
