[sane-devel] Scanners available for experiments

[Gerard Klaver]

On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:52 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some scanners lying around, and reading
> http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/misc/mustek-scanners.html#UNSUPPORTED
> and the referenced mailinglist entry
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2004-August/011685.html
> I realized that instead of simply throwing out these scanners they might
> be usable for "obduction" by some of you guys.
> 
> I live in Roskilde, Denmark, and realize that scanners are probably too
> expensive to get safely transported too far. But I could help arrange a
> "remote lab" with SSH root access to a Debian machine with the scanners
> attached, and me available through IRC (or better: Ekiga) to assist in
> plugging and unplugging, and ripping apart if that's what is neede to
> get more knowledge about these beasts.
> 
> 
> Tell me if it is of any interest.
> 
> 
> Heidelberg Linoscan 1200 (SCSI)
> 
> ScanMagic 1200 USB (vendor=0x055f, product=0x0003, chip=MA-1017?)
> 
> 
> 
> Of course I'd love to make the scanners work, but I'd rather have you
> guys learn from killing them than preserving them and have no Linux
> drivers for them.
> 
> 
> I also have access to a Linotype-Hell Jade2 (SCSI) but until some decent
> alternative scanner setup is working my girlfriend won't let go of that
> one (working only with MacOS 9!), so either that'l have to wait or you
> need to somehow assure me that the tests done on that is not too risky.
> 
> 
> Tell me if it is of any interest!
> 
> 
>  - Jonas
> 
> -- 
> * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt
> * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/
> 
>  - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
> 

Check this page for your Scanmagic usb scanner, vendor and product id is
not mentioned, but mustek_usb backend supports the MA-1017 chip

http://www.meier-geinitz.de/sane/mustek_usb-backend/
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Gerard Klaver