I have been posting on Nikon's Imaging Support Forum. So far, they have said
they "don't provide information about developing on other operating
systems." I replied that I didin't need Linux information, I needed Coolscan
III information: what gets sent to the scanner over the SCSI bus and what to
expect the scanner to send back, the scanner's command set. No answer to
that, so far.
-F
----- Original Message -----
From: Didier Carlier <carlierd@acm.org>
To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Friday, May 14, 1999 4:43 AM
Subject: Re: Coolscan LS-30 + best scanner
>
> On 13-May-99 Ewald R. de Wit wrote:
> >> > The best thing would be for you to get the Nikon LS30 and write
> >> > the driver for it!
> >>
> >> How hard would that be? Do Nikon release specs? I would consider doing
> >> it if it's not going to be some project that makes me tear my hair out.
> >
> > I believe Nikon releases the specs with no problems but I'm not sure.
> > About how hard it is, I don't know. There is already a functioning
> > Nikon backend and chances are that things need not be changed too
> > much. Perhaps Didier Carlier knows more about this?
>
> I have asked Nikon about the LS-30/LS-2000 interface specifications
several
> times last year and the last time I checked, the only way to get them was
to
> have a company or some other legal entity sign a non-disclosure agreement.
Of
> course this policy may very well change at any time and at least it wasn't
a
> plain 'no'...
>
> As to how much the LS-20/1000 differ from the LS-30/2000 interface, I have
> really no idea, sorry.
>
> Best regards,
> Didier
>
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