I looked it up (thnx to lycos) ASPI is not an open standard, it's defined by adaptec (SCSI card manufacturer) http://www.adaptec.com/support/faqs/aspi.html Here the first question+answer --------------------------- Q.What is ASPI? A. "ASPI" stands for Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. It is an Adaptec-developed interface specification for sending commands to SCSI host adapters. The interface provides an abstraction layer that insulates the programmer from considerations of the particular host adapter used. With ASPI, software drivers can be broken into two components: the low-level ASPI manager, which is OS and hardware dependent, and the ASPI module. The ASPI manager accepts ASPI commands and performs the steps necessary to send the SCSI command to the target. For example, although the Adaptec AHA-152x and AHA-274x host adapters have very different hardware, the ASPI interface to these boards is the same. (Obviously, Adaptec's code that implements the ASPI interface, e.g., ASPI2DOS.SYS, for each board is quite different.) The ASPI Module is tailored to the command set of a particular peripheral, such as CD-ROM. Although an ASPI-based CD-ROM driver would have to handle the differences between different CD-ROM drives, it would not have to handle host adapter differences. --------------------------- Arno Bakker System Engineer - Riverland Consultants B.V. Zekerings str. 43e E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1014 BV Amsterdam Site : http://www.Riverland.nl tel: +31 (0)20-681 481 6 fax: +31 (0)20-681 258 3 > -----Original Message----- > From: Konami Man [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 22, 1998 9:22 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: ASPI > > >That ASPI standard is a driver system. Like a BIOS extension. > >Software routines only. > > So, ASPI don't defines any partitionning system, but only how to treat > existing partitions. I'm right? > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Konami Man - AKA Nestor Soriano (^ ^)Y > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/9797/msx.htm > > This Pentium will become obsolete in 5 seconds... > 4... 3... 2... > ------------------------------------------------------- > > **** > MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > and put > in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > (without the > quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) > **** **** MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the body (not subject) "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes :-) Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] (www.stack.nl/~wiebe/mailinglist/) ****
