[sane-devel] Re: SANE driver for NEC Petiscan scanner

[Allan Kaplan]

Thanks,

I will work on finding a PC to check it from.  Unfortunately, VirtualPC for
Mac will not read the USB bus, or I wouldn't need Sane in the first place.

Allan


On 6/14/04 6:07 PM, "m. allan noah" <anoah@pfeiffer.edu> wrote:

> TIS is teco image systems. 2ax000 must be part number. next is date code.
> 
> there is a little hp that uses this chip (photo 1000 iirc).
> 
> your best bet is going to be usb sniff from windows, and compare the data
> to what is used by the other teco backends, just on the off chance that it
> is similar or encapsulated version.
> 
> allan
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Allan Kaplan wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> OK, I managed to take the scanner apart without damaging it, and found the
>> the big chip hiding under a cover.
>> 
>> TIS
>> 2AX000
>> 59S1998
>> F8W07-000
>> 9939
>> 
>> I will see what other info I can find.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Allan
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:49:43 +0200
>>> From: Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
>>> To: sane-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
>>> Subject: Re: [sane-devel] SANE driver for NEC Petiscan scanner
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2004 at 05:08:09PM -0700, Allan Kaplan wrote:
>>>> As far as I can tell, without further digging into the guts of the scanner,
>>>> there are two chips which say
>>>> 
>>>> JIC (?)
>>>> ES52099S
>>>> 9919-LHIJ
>>>> I was not able to find data on this chip.
>>> 
>>> Google finds some references but no spec or explanation.
>>> 
>>>> Winbond
>>>> W24512AJ-15
>>>> 919SA290732601CE
>>>> Chip specs: 
>>>> <http://www.chipdocs.com/pndecoder/datasheets/WBOND/W24512AJ-15.html>
>>> 
>>> So that's RAM. No other chips? In this c ase the JIC must be the scan
>>> chip.
>>> 
>>>> It occurred to me that this scanner will run off another computer I have
>>>> access to, but only in MacOS9.  Might there more data that I can access
>>>> from
>>>> a computer that will actually run the scanner, versus this laptop with
>>>> which
>>>> I want to ultimately run the scanner, but only uses MacOSX?
>>> 
>>> You need software that can listen to the USB commands send to the
>>> scanner ("sniffer"). While some programs are available for Windows I
>>> don't know if that's the case for MacOS9.
>>> 
>>> Bye,
>>> Henning
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>>