E6XL usable? & scg driver help [was: Re: Microtek V300, anyone?]

Scott J. Kramer (sjk@lux.com)
Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:48:26 -1000

On Fri, 18-Sep-1998 @ 16:07, Bernd Schroeder wrote:
> Subject: Re: Microtek V300, anyone?

[...]

> Please download one of the files in
>
> ftp://ftp.muc.de/people/bernds/mtek2
>
> with a version 0.4 or higher. Maybe, that the V300 works with them. If
> not, please send me a trace with SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK2 set to 30.

Greetings Bernd and other SANErs,

I'm interested in purchasing a SANE-capable scanner and am unsure if
the Microtek X6EL (currently my first choice) will work. Does anyone
have any reports of whether or not the microtek2 backend works with
that model? This is the only information I could find in the list
archives:

Bernd Schroeder (bernd@aquila.muc.de)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 00:35:20 +0200

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 07:59:17PM -0500, Michael Land Morgan wrote:
> A SCSI version of this scanner exists, however. It might be called the
> Macintosh version. I'll be trying to avoid parallel port devices, anyway.

Ok. Provided that the X6 uses the SCSI-2 command set, the microtek(2)
backend should support this model. Version 0.3 of the backend that will
be distributed with the next release of sane has some preliminary support
for scanners with more than 8 bit per color output data (like the X6).

However, this functionality is *completely* untested, so I suppose that
it won't work at the first go. To my knowledge this is the first time
that someone wants to to use this model with sane.

To sum up: It is intended to support such scanners, but I doubt that
it works at present without flaws. If someone has already an X6 and
tries to use it with sane: I am interested in any trace/debug information.

If continued development of the microtek2 driver is planned I may be
able to help with testing (on Solaris 2.6), tho' both my programming
background and knowledge of scanner technology are minimal. Or might
I be better off playing conservative and getting the older Microtek E6
instead?

Also, I'm trying to get a borrowed E3 to work and am stuck at:

sjk@shimmer# env SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI=128 SANE_DEBUG_MICROTEK=128 scanimage -
L -v
[sanei_init_debug]: Setting debug level of microtek to 128.
[microtek] sane_init: MICROTEK says hello! (v0.9)
[microtek] sane_init: config- /dev/scg0c
[microtek] attach_scanner: /dev/scg0c
[microtek] attach_scanner: opening /dev/scg0c
[sanei_init_debug]: Setting debug level of sanei_scsi to 128.
[sanei_scsi] sanei_scsi_open: open of `/dev/scg0c' failed: No such file or dir
ectory
[microtek] attach_scanner: open failed
[microtek] sane_get_devices
device `pnm:0' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device
device `pnm:1' is a Noname PNM file reader virtual device
[microtek] sane_exit...
[microtek] sane_exit: MICROTEK says goodbye.

I had similar non-results when testing a UMAX 1220S.

But `cdrecord', which uses the scg driver, recognizes the device:

sjk@shimmer# cdrecord -debug -inq dev=2,0
Cdrecord release 1.6 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 Jörg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '2,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0
Device type : Scanner
Version : 4
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : ' 'Identifikation : 'Scanner '
Revision : '1.40'
Device seems to be: Microtek MS300A.

Am I overlooking something obvious to get SANE backends working with
scg? Thanx for any advice. Aloha,

-sjk

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