Re: Sane drivers

Warren Early (earlyw@sphinx-group.com)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:21:27 -0800

I can field this one...Microtek cannot release any parallel port
documentation. I've already looked into it. This is why: the EPP versions of
the scanners are really SCSI scanners that have a parallel-to-SCSI
conversion chip from OnSpec built-in. Microtek cannot release the specs for
a chip that they don't make. I understand that the Linux parallel port devel
effort is trying to put together drivers for that chip-set so until then I
wouldn't waste any time on it. OnSpec has drivers for download for OS/2 if
someone wants to develop something for that.

I think it would be a good idea to credit those manufacturers that cooperate
with SANE rather than give them unfair criticism.

Regards,

Warren Early
The Sphinx Group
Agoura Hills CA
USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Juha Sahakangas <juhaz@dlc.fi>
To: Bert Bakker <bbakker@Microtek.nl>
Cc: 'sane-devel@mostang.com' <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Date: Monday, March 15, 1999 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: Sane drivers

>On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Bert Bakker wrote:
>
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> We have already sent out the SCSI command set to several people would
>> said that they would publish the resulting driver on the SANE website.
>
>You need to give also paraller <-> scsi adapter specs if you would like to
>get paraller port scanner drivers too..
>
>> I would like to have just one contact for this Linux SANE project and
>> not just individual people who just write a driver for only one scanner.
>
>Well, just for that this mailing list is good for.
>
>
>
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