At 05:50 PM 2/17/2002 -0500, you wrote: >So, >Are we correct in guessing that if we don't have an Adaptec SCSI card then >we won't gain anything by downloading the Adaptec 4.70 software? On Ed's >site, there are two choices for an ASPI download; the Adaptec for that type >of SCSI card and the LSI site for other types of SCSI cards. I have used the >LSI driver for my Advansys SCSI card and it works fine with Windows XP. Just >reassuring myself because I am not sure if any of the Adaptec information >concerns me? >Thankyou, >Owen > >Owen P. Evans >Osgoode, Ontario. Canada >(near our nation's capital; Ottawa) > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Jeff Spirer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 4:19 PM >Subject: [filmscanners] Re: New Adaptec ASPI version 4.70 released- Not for >W95 > > >At 04:13 PM 2/17/2002 -0500, wrote: >>So folks >>install a SCSI card, W2K/XP sees it and seems to install everything >>necessary for it's operation, but at least as regards many (most?) SCSI >>scanners, they won't function without ASPI layer. > >The excellent tech support at Polaroid helped me to get my SS120 working >with an Adaptec card without ASPI. Interestingly enough, the useless tech >support at Adaptech told me it wouldn't work and I needed a new card. > > >Jeff Spirer >Photos: http://www.spirer.com >One People: http://www.onepeople.com/
As I understand it, the ASPI layer was more-or-less an Adaptec creation, and for a while everyone used it. Then Adaptec started to get shirty about other card mfrs using it with non-Adaptec chipsets, so some others were created by those makers and by one or two software purveyors. For a while it was difficult to get it from the Adaptec website -- this seems to have changed lately. The ASPI layer in various iterations of Windows is an Adaptec version, but was somewhat bastardised (I suppose by M$) and didn't always do what it should. Adaptec have lately moved away from using the ASPI layer in their software and declare it's no longer necessary -- unfortunately other software has different ideas... I'm using version 4.60 in XP (ASPICHK tells me it's Windows NT -- version 4.70 might recognise XP?) on an Athlon powered RAID system with an IOI SCSI card, so far with success. I did have problems under XP with both an Adaptec 2940U/UW and an Advansys, but to date the IOI has been fine -- it runs an internal Plextor CD burner, an SS4000 and an old Epson GT-8500 flatbed quite happily. Regards Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
