Re: [Comp] More problems (revisited)

In a message dated 1/2/00 10:21:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

<< Just to clear any fog...
 
 TWAIN is a sort of middle man between the application and the scanner.  It's
 almost like a driver program, but it allows anything that's 'twain capabale' 
or
 whatever to talk to your scanner directly, so you don't have to scan a doc in
 one program, save it, then open it in another.  "Acquire" is simply using 
twain
 to get stuff from the scanner.
 
 John >>
 Is this like an ASPI layer? on the HP I took apart and put all the cards 
into an Abit BE6, one of the problems we came up against was the drivers for 
the HP 8100 burner. Installing burner software didnt work, win98 detected it 
as a cd rom but there was no Adaptec "layer" (whatever that is). Searching 
the Adaptec web site all of the drivers I found said according to the readme 
files required that some kind of aspi layer be installed first.
We couldnt get the burner to work until we borrowed an original installation 
cd from someone who had the same burner, but didnt have an HP.
The 8100 burner came with the HP and its "layer" was part of the recovery 
disk we were attempting to do away with.
Is a TWAIN a kind of bios, that needs to be there before a driver can "find" 
a device?
Is an ADAPTEC LAYER like this?
Most video cards (and I think ata66 add on cards, and maybe scsi cards as 
well) have a "pre- bios" that shows up first on post before the system bios 
posts, is this like that?

a curious David, the more I learn, the more chances I have at screwing it up 
worse lol
but hey, its nothing I cant fix with fdisk and format...
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