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ASPI?

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teddyv

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I finished my build last week and was poking through the Nero Infotool that came with my BenQ 1620 and noticed under the ASP tab I had "ASPI Not Installed". What is it and do I need it?

Thanks!
 

I wondered about that once myself and found this somewhere while looking it up back in the Win98 days when I was leaning towards SCSI

The acronym ASPI stands for Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. ASPI layer, drivers, interface & file system are synonymous. System software and applications use ASPI not only to interface with SCSI devices but with IDE/ATAPI devices when ripping & burning CDs. The ASPI protocol is primarily based on one file, wnaspi32.dll. There are other files that support wnaspi32.dll, referred to as the ASPI layer. The Windows 95/98/Me install includes wnaspi32.dll & the ASPI layer. The 2K/XP installs do not include neither wnaspi32.dll nor the ASPI layer and instead use the ?SCSI Pass Through? interface. It is better to use the ?SCSI Pass Through? interface the ASPI option is in there just a backup option. If your CD Burner is giving you trouble.
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The ASPI layer used to provide an abstraction of the actual SCSI host adapter hardware, so that device drivers for SCSI peripherals had a generic programming interface to hook to, regardless of who built the SCSI card. This topic is now covered by OS-native SCSI interface drivers, so that ASPI should be well obsolete - it's a DOS thing dragged into Windows 9x and eventually NT, 2K and XP, for the only reason that there STILL is "current" software that can't go through native Windows drivers to do SCSI.
 
Be a Johnny ASPIseed like me! If a machine has a burner and lacks ASPI layer software, I will suggest/pressure that it be installed. And if the ASPI layer software is an old version, I will update it. I use the ASPI layer software from Adaptec as it has a utility to test to see if ASPI is installed and what version it is. Once you have found that out, you can install/udate whatever ASPI version you prefer. I generally install the Adaptec version as it seems to work well with everything, but Nero has their own version and so does LSI. I just haven't bothered to try the other versions.

.b.h.
 
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