RE: filmscanners: To Ed H; was: Vuescan for Minolta Scan Multi Pro

["Joel Rittvo" <joel@perfect-flight.com>]

So there is a program that listens to the bus and logs everything that goes
through it?  Do they make any basic sense or are they like assembler or
machine language, if those terms are still in use?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Rob Geraghty
> Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 9:23 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: To Ed H; was: Vuescan for Minolta Scan Multi
> Pro
>
>
> > Not trying to steal trade secrets here, and wouldn't know what
> to do with
> > them anyway, but could you briefly explain how you learn to "talk" to a
> new
> > scanner in its "language"?  Do you run through its software and
> have some
> > way of reading or logging the info that goes back and forth between the
> > computer and the scanner?
>
> Yes, you trace the SCSI commands.  It's just a matter of recording the
> commands and responses sent over the SCSI bus.  Actually
> understanding them
> is the hard part!
>
> Rob
>
>
>