That's excellent, wild-west-type stuff.
I'm still willing to make a phone call or two, or send multiple
polite-but-relentless e-mails to someone at Nikon. Suggestions about whom,
anyone?
I will continue to post on the Nikon Image Processing Support Forum.
Didier Carlier:
Are you free to make the documentation for the LS-20 available?
It might be useful to Andreas Rick, if only as an outdated road map.
-F
----- Original Message -----
From: Andreas Rick <rickand@gemse.fr>
To: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 8:14 AM
Subject: Re: Coolscan LS-30 + best scanner
> I repost my last message as it appearently didn't make it into
> the new-group:
>
> >I don't know how much time you have but it sounds like a fun project
> >to me, especially with the extra infrared channel and stuff.
>
> I bought a Nikon Coolscan LS30 two weeks-ago.
> Since then I've been working on making it run under SANE.
> I somewhat succeded to start the NikonScan - software provided with
> the scanner under Wine and the TWAIN interface comes up.
> I can do Prescans, but Preview or Scan fails.
> It looks like it breaks when it is trying to do the autofocus...
>
> Next, I dummed all the commands that pass through the
> Wine aspi interface (-debug-msg +aspi) and since
> then I am trying to figure out which command corresponds
> to what in the Sane-backend for the Coolscan LS20 written
> by Didier Carlier.
>
> Even without beeing able to get it work completely:
> Hats off the Wine-team for the good debug-features
> integrated into Wine. When Wine will be more stable
> on these (difficult) hardware issues it will be the ideal
> tool for Scanner protokol analysis.
>
> It is a fun project, but it is also not very easy, as quite
> some protokol changes have been made and without the docs
> its like playing detective.
>
> Right now my modified Coolscan backend can do about as much
> as the Twain interface under Wine: Detect the Scanner,
> get some parameter information from it and do a prescan.
>
> If anyone has had any more success about getting the LS30
> to work under Wine I would like to hear about it, so
> that I can analyse what is going on on the ASPI interface
> during scan.
>
> Has anyone experience about listening to a SCSI-bus under
> Windows? Is there a tool to dump all SCSI transfers?
> This might help to figure out what is going on.
>
>
> --- Andreas
>
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> Andreas RICK e-mail: rickand@gemse.fr
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