Re: epson 2450 chews at hard drive

["Bob Zwarick" <bravetree086@xxxxxxxxx>]

My twain for the 2450 does not chew at the HD. I'm using Win 2k with 512mb
ram and have a virtual memory of 1 gig.

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Newman, Victor F" <VNewman@framatech.com>
To: <scan-digest@leben.com>
Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 11:22 PM
Subject: epson 2450 chews at hard drive


>
> >Subject: Re: epson 2450 chews at hard drive
> >
> >On 28 Feb 2002 at 8:21, pat smith wrote:
> >
> >> Greeting list,
> >> On another list this complain came up <snip> The complaint is while
> >>using the twain driver, a 5. something, you start hearing your hard
> >>drive whining. Has any of you experienced this and anyone know of what
> >>that can do
> >>to your hard drive? I'm presuming the noise comes from the HD working
> >>harder, maybe not a great thing for its longevity.
> >>TIA Pat
> >
> >
> >
> >When the Twain driver (v. 5.53A) that came with my Epson 780 runs, it
> >causes periodic hard drive access every second or so, no reason known.
> I
> >
> >have plenty of RAM, but even when it's not being used actively it
> causes
> >
> >this clicking access. I exit it whenever I can. Can't be helping drive
> >life, but I suppose it's normal for this Twain driver. It's not
> >"whining". Anyone else notice this?
> >
> >Don Dement
>
>
> If I'm not mistaken, I'm one of the co-initiators of this thread on Mike
> Chaney's "Profile Prism" Yahoo group.  Mike commented on the Epson Twain
> plugin (specifically when used with the 2450), noting that his primary
> dislike of it was that "it chews at the hard drive once a second
> whenever it's open" (or some words to that effect--"chews at the HD is
> an exact quote").  I jumped right in and agreed.  Niether Mike nor I
> ever mentioned "whining".
>
> As Don accurately described above, ANY time the Twain plugin is open it
> continuously accesses my HD roughly once a second, regardless of any
> other activity that is or isn't taking place.  I also seem to recall
> that the Twain plugin for my HP 5300 scanner did the same.  I fail to
> see why the program needs to keep hitting the HD, regardless of how
> durable drives are nowadays.  My machine, FWIW, is a Dell PIII, 866 MHz,
> 512 MB RAM, running W Me.  The hard drive "chewing" starts as soon as
> the Twain module is up and running, before any scan has started.
>
> Maybe somebody here knows what the Twain module is doing.
>
> Regards,
>
> Victor Newman


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