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

[Alex]

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 at 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