RE: SCSI Scanner on Win 2K??

["Rafe B." <rafeb@adelphia.net>]

At 03:50 PM 11/15/2001 -0800, Chip Louie wrote:
>
>Hi Rafe,

Yo.  Thanks for the reply.

>If the scanner is recognized it should work O.K., why mess with it?  I know,
>you're like me, because you can!  Here is some info to get you started.

Not quite.  winaspi was critical to getting the 
SprintScan 35's TWAIN driver to work, and even 
for V4.5 of Insight.  (Both of which are fine 
now...)

>Adapetc's web site specifically states that no versions of their EZ-SCSI
>software should be installed under Win2K.  

Yes, that's what's odd.  Actually, Adaptec's 
EZ-SCSI V 4.60 refused to install on my 
Advansys card.  Apparently it IDs the card.


>As for ASPI drivers the Advansys
>922 may have an Adaptec ASIC chip and may prefer the Adaptec drivers.

And as luck would have it, Advansys' FTP server 
wasn't responding at all, or else the link 
was bad.  (Advansys goes by some other name 
now, I forget.)

In desperation, I dug out the original CD 
that came with the Advansys card (which came 
with the Polaroid scanner) and installed 
the "NT" ASPI layer.  That seems to have 
done the trick...  So far, no ill side 
effects, so I'm wondering what the fuss is 
about winaspi32 in Windows 2000.

Thanks also to Dave Hemingway who also 
suggested that the Adaptec "warnings" 
could be ignored.


rafe b.


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