[sane-devel] fujitsu duplex scan with usb

[m. allan noah]

yes, i have the oem manual, i will send in a separate email. however, it 
will not fix the problem, as the usb-specific documentation is about 1 
page long, and completely useless. i have spoken with several people at 
fujitsu, but they insist there is no other documentation.

so, i tracked it down using usb snoopy in windows. the problem is simple 
to explain, but harder to fix:

most scsi commands that use a data block after the command block (mode 
select, set window, scan) are formatted differently when sent via usb. the 
command block is sent first, in a single urb, padded to 31 bytes with null 
bytes. then the data block(s) are sent in another urb, not padded.

the existing fujitsu code is very scsi specific, and only uses one buffer 
for scsi cmd/data to the do_cmd() function. this means that the caller has 
to either pad the single buffer with just the right number of 0's in the 
middle of the buffer, or the do_usb_cmd() function will have to break the 
buffer inhalf, and pad the data itself.

for an example, see fujitsu_set_sleep_mode().

you see this problem only with scanning duplex or back side because the 
code at line 3112 (talks about opcode==SCAN) is wrong. it should take the 
last one or two bytes and send as adifferent urb, rather than assuming 00.

i have started a new version of the fujitsu backend, which uses a command 
and a data buffer to do_cmd() but have been far too busy to make much 
headway. take a shot if you would like.

allan

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Oliver Schirrmeister wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> has anybody tried to do a duplex scan with a fujitsu fi-4x20
> and USB interface?
> 
> I've tried
> scanimage --duplex both >/tmp/out
> 
> and the scanner returns and error in the start_scan command
> block. I can't see what's wrong. The same block with SCSI
> works fine. Siplex scanning with USB works as well.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Alan, don't you have the oem manual of that scanner? Can
> you mail that to me?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Oliver
> 
> 
> 

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