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 <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > 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 > >
