[sane-devel] Re: Question about Microtek scanner 3830

[Karsten Festag]

Hi,

>
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 07:07:01PM +0200, Karsten Festag wrote:
> > The 3830 type is not yet supported as far as I know. The newer microtek
> > scanners are mostly very different from the ones supported by the
> > microtek2 backend. Hopefully some owner of such a scanner will try to
> > write a SANE backend in the future.
>
> Maybe it's similar to the 3800, which is reported to use a SQ 08 chip?
> Anyway, I'll add that scanner to our lists. I guess I can also add it
> to the kernel scanner driver as it doesn't look like a SCSI-over-USB
> scanner?
>

Maybe, but I wouldn't guarantee for nothing: At least there are scanners which 
both are named 'Slimscan C3' but have different model-IDs and different 
calibration procedures :-(

But I think you are right, these are probably not SCSI-over-USB scanners. 
Though I don't know about the ones with additional Firewire interface. Isn't 
the firewire protocol somehow related to SCSI?

Karsten