In Win98 Microsoft distributed Adaptec's ASPI layer with the OS.
Starting with XP and (I think) as early as Win 2000, Microsoft was
pushing the use of their own proprietary SCSI interface. Consequently,
they discontinued the automatic inclusion of ASPI with the OS. But ASPI
was required for many SCSI scanners. Getting them to work was simply a
matter of downloading the ASPI layer from Adaptec's website. You may
have to search a bit but I believe ASPI is still there although it
probably hasn't had any code changes for 10 years or so.
If it's not there and someone needs it I have a copy squirreled away.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/8/2011 4:53 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 1/8/2011 12:40 PM, John Hudson wrote:
>> I have a Canon FS 2710 film scanner, also looking for a new home or
>> perhaps the junk heap.
>>
>> It ran on Windows 98 and beyond that OS the machine is
>> functionless. Is the FS2720 a post Win98 machine?
>
> My mistake. As I have before, I confused resolution, 2720, with model
> number, FS2710. The good news is that you are wrong about it not
> operating beyond W98. Below, I quote myself from 2002 in some detail
> about how the 2710 worked for me under XP.
>
> Since then, Ed Hamrick has created a generic driver that skips all
> the ASPI fuss for old SCSI scanners. I don't believe I ever used it
> with FS2710 and XP, on the 'if it ain't broke' principle. I do
> believe I used it with the FS4000 and XP and I am currently using it
> with FS4000 and Vista.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if the FS2710 could be used under at least 32
> bit Vista and W7, using ASPI or the Hamrick driver.
>
> Moose
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
Canon FS2710 and Winoze XP:
>
> I believe someone posted before that the Canoscan FS2710 can't be
> used under XP. THAT IS NOT TRUE!! The solution I found may be of
> interest beyond just my specific problem as it would seem to apply
> generally for SCSI under Win2000& XP.
>
> Canon USA says it is not supported under XP and the latest version of
> their scanning software, 3.6.2 isn't XP ready. Canon Europe has a
> version of the CanoCraft software (3.6.6) available for download that
> expressly supports XP.
>
> XP has a driver for the Adaptec AIC-7850 PCI SCSI card that Canon
> supplied, but, as the Canon manual says for earlier versions of
> Windoz, it doesn't work. The new version of Canoscan runs, but can't
> find the card/scanner. All kinds of searching didn't find an XP
> driver for the card and the old drivers don't work.
>
> I don't use the Canon software anyway, so I tried Vuescan. It also
> couldn't find the SCSI card, but said "If you're using Windows 2000
> or Windows XP and a SCSI scanner and if VueScan doesn't find your
> SCSI scanner, you may need to download and install ASPI" The
> Hamrick.com site has 2 different links to Adaptec sites (Neither of
> which I found directly on the Adaptec support site.) for downloading
> ASPI (different file names at each location). One wasn't working at
> that moment, although it seems to now. I used
> http://download.adaptec.com/software_pc/aspi/aspi_v472a2.exe One of
> the docs explains "The Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI) for
> Win32 was designed to increase compatibility and simplify the
> connection of SCSI peripheral devices like tape, CD-ROM, WORM,
> magneto-optical, scanners, and other devices. It defines a protocol
> for SCSI applications (called ASPI modules) to submit I/O requests to
> a single operating system driver (called the ASPI manager). Access to
> the operating system driver is made through a Dynamic Link Library
> named WNASPI32.DLL." So it's like a layer that mediates between
> Win2000/XP and SCSI devices.
>
> In any case, it works! Both CanoCraft and Vuescan can now scan
> sucessfully. One more XP compatability solved!
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