No, your unsupported scanner does not have Win 2K/XP drivers.
If we are speaking of any actual SCSI consumer scanners (and this thread
was), then of course anyone with a SCSI scanner knows that Mac is correct.
SCSI consumer scanners absolutely do require ASPI in XP to work.
It is true that W2K/XP does provide an alternate Microsoft SCSI API, and
SCSI hard disk drivers and SCSI CD drivers do use it instead of ASPI. The
idea is then they can no longer bypass Windows security to access system
protected disk files, which is why Microsoft discouraged ASPI.
I suppose your point was that the scanner driver **could** have been
rewritten that way too. My point is that it wasnt. Consumer scanners
simply didnt do it, and they do still require ASPI if you want them to
work in XP. Actually consumer scanners instead abandoned SCSI and
converted to Firewire, etc.
The commerical 10-20 ppm class of office document scanners largely stayed
with SCSI so far, and generally use ISIS instead of TWAIN, and I'd guess
ISIS probably no longer uses ASPI, to keep Microsoft happy.
But SCSI consumer scanners still require ASPI, and this is the first thing
to know to make a SCSI scanner work in XP.
