jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) (06/25/91)
In article <9106240614.AA02290@.nextoid.> robert@nextoid.UUCP (Robert Patrick Thille) writes: > Since I'm interested in finding as much out about why my scanner > doesn't work, and how to fix it, I'm asking for information about > SCSI in general and SCSI scanners in particular. Robert - The ANSI manual will give the full specs for SCSI. I have it sitting in front of me right now (costed a whole $80, if I remember correctly....). But it does *not* specify scanner SCSI opcodes since scanners were *not* considered when it was made. Things may have changed for SCSI II, I'm not sure. The SCSI I manual is in the public archive sites too. It is not formatted too nicely. I will be publishing a power-user version of SCSIInquirer called SCSICommander in a couple of months. This may be a commerical product if I find a vendor.... But it will allow very low-level control of the SCSI bus along with a full online manual. This is not for release yet, so I don't know why I'm yabbing aobut it. :-) If you want to fool around with SCSI, grab my SCSIInquirer package from the FTP sites and look at the source code for it. It should give you some ideas of what to do. My SCSI.m class should give you enough to work on. If you are using a Canon scanner, then please contact me further since I can put you in touch with the people who handle developer requests for it. - jiro nakamura jiro@shaman.com -- Jiro Nakamura jiro@shaman.com Shaman Consulting +1 607 277-1440 Voice/Fax/Data "Bring your dead, dying shamans here!"