# Re: FireWire (i.Link / 1394) support?

From: Steve Underwood (steveu@coppice.org)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2001 - 08:34:11 PST

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  Karl Heinz Kremer wrote:
  >
  > On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 10:00:48AM -0500, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
  > > Allan Engelhardt wrote:
  > > >
  > > > Couldn't find anything in the archives ot the FAQ, so here goes:
  > > >
  > > > Has anybody been looking at support for the FireWire (a.k.a. i.Link, a.k.a. i1394) bus, now that it is supported (-ish) in the 2.4 Linux kernel?
  > > >
  > > > There are a copule of neat scanners with this interface that I'd like to use.
  > >
  > > Allan,
  > > If the scanners use the SBP-2 protocol (i.e. scsi command
  > > set) over 1394 then there is a driver in beta test written
  > > by James Goodwin at:
  > > http://firewire.zawa.com/sbp2/
  > >
  > > He mentions that it has been tested on a Epson 1394 scanner.
  >
  > Not quite correct: First of all it was an EPSON Expression 1600
  > scanner and James has no first hand experience with this scanner -
  > I have one here running with the IEEE1394 interface, and it was
  > me who fixed the SBP-2 driver to allow for the EPSON scanner to
  > work. EPSON is not doing anything special, so I would guess that
  > ever other scanner with an IEEE-1394 interface would also work
  > as long as SANE supports the SCSI version of the scanner.

  Interesting. Some people have complained their SCSI and USB scanners are
  slow when using SANE. How fast does your Epson scan, with what should be
  a pretty high performance interface? (SCSI should be fast, its true, but
  the crummy SCSI interfaces on most scanner aren't really capable of high
  throughput).

  Regards,
  Steve

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