[sane-devel] Support for Mustek Paragon 600 II EP

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:48:28AM +0100, James Perry wrote:
> I have a Mustek Paragon 600 II EP scanner, which is not
> yet supported by SANE. Recently I have been writing a
> program to access it from Linux, reverse engineering the
> Windows driver to discover the protocol. The program
> mostly works now - it can scan a colour image of arbitrary
> size at various resolutions (although the quality doesn't
> seem to be as good as in Windows).

Cool. Can you put the program on a web site so we can link to it?

> I'd like to add support for this scanner to one of the
> SANE backends, and I wondered if anyone had advice. I've
> looked at the SANE code, the 600 II EP protocol seems to
> be almost identical to the 600 II N's, except the EP uses
> a standard parallel port while the N uses its own special
> interface.

That's what I expected.

> So I thought the best way to proceed might be
> to use the same code in mustek.c for constructing the SCSI
> commands and higher level stuff like that, and add some new
> 'sanei_' functions to access the 600 II EP at a low level,
> maybe putting them in sanei_ab306.c? Or maybe it would be
> better to put it in with the other parallel port code? Any
> thoughts?

The idea is ok. I guess it's better to use a new sanei file, e.g.
sanei_mustek_parport instead of sanei_ab306 because the ab306 is the
name of that 600 II N card and that would be confusing. But you should
have a look at the existsing files in sanei, maybe you can use
sanei_pio?

Bye,
  Henning