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On 12/16/2005 at 1:49 PM Jim Leonard wrote: ASPI is easy--one of the good standards that came out of DOS--there's a Windows version of it also (16 and 32 bit). All you need is the correct ASPI device-specific driver in addition to the ASPI driver for your card. So, for a disk drive, it's going to be named something like ASPIDISK.SYS. Add this after the ASPI driver in your CONFIG.SYS and you're off and running--there may be other utilities included for managing an ASPI-driven SCSI disk drive. I haven't checked lately, but Adaptec included some fairly generic device-related drivers and utilities in their DOS driver kit (which was free for downloading). It's a layered approach. So, for example, to attach a SCSI hard drive to a PC using the Trantor/Adaptec T358 parallel port-to-SCSI "fat cable", my config sys would contain the following: DEVICE=MA358.SYS DEVICE=ASPIDISK.SYS There was a competitor to ASPI, called CAM, for Common Access Manager. It was similar to ASPI but somewhat more complex, some cards (Future Domain was one) used that in place of, or in addition to ASPI. Cheers, Chuck