[sane-devel] Spot ScanTak 2c/3c

[Thomas VIAL]

Hi Alex,


Just a quick note to say that no guarantee can be
given as to when a new driver/backend will be
available!
I shouldn't be wrong in saying that everybody working
on those various projects are doing this in their
spare time...


Thomas

 --- Alex <shflesh@sh.km.ua> a écrit : > 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
> <henning@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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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