[sane-devel] Question about genesys ASIC

[m. allan noah]

I've not seen it with genesys, but i have seen drivers that do send
the current date to the scanner, which will be stored in NVRAM, so
that warranty claims will be correct or consumable parts
(rollers/pads) can get a reminder.

allan

On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 3:58 PM, stef <stef.dev at free.fr> wrote:
>        Hello,
>
>        while trying to make the HP3670 (GL646 based) work, I noticed the following
> write by the windows driver:
> ....
> sanei_genesys_set_buffer_address(0x0ff0)
> sanei_genesys_bulk_write_data(0x3c,256)=0x31 0x17 ...
> ...
> the ascii values turn to be
> [01/16/10-07:17:21]TU-3.03.27XTWEETY--/GL/NEC----
>
>        It seems to be some sort of timestamp or watermark. Does anyone already seen
> something like that, especially for genesys based scanners ?
>
> Regards,
>        Stef
>
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