[sane-devel] Nikon Super CoolScan 4000 ED?

[Major A]

Carlos,

> any plans to incorporate the SUPER COOLSCAN 4000 ED film scanner into the
> line-up of SANE supported scanners in the near future? This would capture
> a lot of high-end photographers. 

Support is basically there. Please look under

  http://coolscan2.sourceforge.net/

where you can find the current version (via CVS only, at the moment)
of the coolscan2 backend, with instructions (README) of how to build
it in the SANE backends tree. It currently supports the LS-30 and (to
some extent) the LS-40, it should also run with the other modern
scanners (LS-4000 and LS-8000).

My request to you is: PLEASE try and send me reports of how it
works. If you get a scan with half the image and the other half
garbage, then I know what the problem is (known problem with the
LS-40, I just haven't fixed it yet).

> NOTE: this scanner only supports IEEE1394 ("Fire-wire") and I don't know
> if  current Linux supports firewire.

No problem because the scanner uses SBP-2, which is a
SCSI-over-IEEE1394 tunnel. You only need to enable SBP-2 in the kernel
(and maybe load the module), then the scanner will show up as a SCSI
device.

  Andras

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