What Are ASPI Drivers?

[presto]

What are ASPI drivers how do I tell if I need them? I am running windows XP and I saw one post that said that XP has no ASPI layer and I see that in the Useful Software area there is a link to ASPI drivers and when I went there it lists ASPI drivers for XP.

[mikerios]

Advanced SCSI Programing Interface = ASPI, what all CD-R's use ( IDE or SCSI ), Both Windows 2000 and Windows XP do not come with an ASPI layer installed, But Adaptec now has a version 4.7 ASPI layer ( free )that will install with no need of any qualify Adaptec product installed allready.

a good little information on it can be found here...

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~aa571/aspi.htm

the ASPI 4.7 file from Adaptec is here

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/drivers_by_product.html?cat=%2fProduct%2fASPI...I+Package+4.70

[KingJohn]

But dont worry if it installs 4.6