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32 Installing device drivers

VIDAR Film Digitizer Installation Guide

About the STI drivers

Previously, most system integrators built their scanning applications for

VIDAR digitizers based on either the VIDAR SCSI Toolkit or the

ActiveX control (based on the SCSI Toolkit). VIDAR’s SCSI Toolkit

was based on Adaptec’s ASPI drivers. However, Adaptec™ is not

supporting its ASPI drivers for Microsoft Windows 2000 or XP.

Therefore, VIDAR has developed a new toolkit that takes advantage of

Microsoft’s Still Image Architecture (STI) for digital imaging devices.

The new VIDAR Toolkit and VIDAR STI driver support several

operating system enhancements.

The VIDAR STI driver was designed to provide compatibility between

VIDAR medical film digitizers and Windows 2000 and XP. Features of

this driver include:

 Installation/setup wizard for easy and consistent installation.

 Scanners and Cameras Control Panel, which provides a common

interface for still image devices.

 Push-model event monitor and control center, a consistent model in

which a still image device can initiate data transfer to an application

(push model), in contrast to an application having to request data from

the device (pull model).

 No need to rely on unsupported ASPI-layer drivers from Adaptec™

for SCSI adapters.

The VIDAR STI driver works with the new Toolkit (vscsi32.dll), which

is automatically installed with the STI driver. The Toolkit (version 3.0)

was developed specifically to support the STI architecture:

 It is a direct replacement for previous vscsi32.dlls.

 No recompiles are necessary.

 Installation automatically replaces the current vscsi32.dll with the new

one.

 Existing applications are easily configured to work with the Toolkit.

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