Re: UMAX parallel port scanner

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> > I am sorry to say that but there is no progress for umax
> > parallel port scanners. The one who has been working on
> > it stopped his work.
>
> Is it practical to reverse-engineer a parallel port connection without
> special hardware? Could one daisychain the parallel cable through
> another PC to see what is happening? Or somehow get MS Windows to
> log the traffic?
>
> Or does Sane not want to use information obtained by
> reverse-engineering?
>

Martin Mevald has already done this but stopped his work:

>I stop driver development for umax parallel scanners.
>
>http://www.penguin.cz/~martinmv/umax/
>There is sniffed communication with ASTRA 610P and analyze.
>
>Martin Mevald, martinmv@hornet.cz

Bye
Oliver

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