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- WIN2K ASPI.TXT
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- Installation Guide for the SDMS Windows 2000 ASPI Version 1.07.00
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- This file describes the features and use of the SDMS ASPI for Windows 2000
- software support package. It is divided into the following sections:
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- Introduction for Windows 2000
- Features
- Description
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- Installing Windows 2000 ASPI
- Using an Installshield
- Command Line Options
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- *********************** Introduction for Window 2000 ***********************
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- SDMS Windows 2000 ASPI is a software support package based on the "ASPI for
- Win32", version 2.3 specification. The ASPI software provides a mechanism used
- by Windows applications as an interface to access SCSI adapters and peripherals.
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- * * * * * * * * * * * * Features * * * * * * * * * * *
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- SDMS Windows 2000 ASPI supports these features:
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- o 32-bit Windows applications
- o Provides information about SCSI adapters and devices
- o Use to issue SCSI I/O requests
- o Multithreaded and multitasking operations
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- * * * * * * * * * * * Description * * * * * * * * * * *
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- SDMS Windows 2000 ASPI is designed to the Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
- (ASPI) version 2.3 specification. All Windows applications use this interface
- to gain access to system SCSI devices. Applications using this interface can
- retrieve information about installed SCSI adapters and the SCSI peripherals
- attached to the adapters. Applications using the ASPI interface can issue
- SCSI I/O requests to the devices.
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- Typical of these types of applications are utility programs that investigate
- and explore SCSI devices, or applications such as CD-R mastering software
- and scanner applications.
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- SDMS Windows 2000 ASPI is comprised of two modules:
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- 1. a user mode DLL, and
- 2. a kernel mode device driver
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- Applications using ASPI only interface with the user mode DLL. The DLL passes
- commands and requests to the kernel mode device driver, which in turn
- interfaces with the Windows 2000 operating system for execution of the request.
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- *********************** Installing Windows 2000 ASPI ************************
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- To install Windows 2000 ASPI software, you execute an InstallShield setup
- program. If you obtained the software from the LSI Logic web site, it will be
- in the form of a self-extracting zip file. Expand the zip file into a directory
- on your hard disk drive, or to a diskette and then run "setup". If you receive
- the Windows 2000 ASPI files on a diskette, simply run "setup".
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- The setup program installs the Windows 2000 ASPI files into the proper
- directories as well as making the appropriate registry entries.
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- After installing the software, you must reboot the computer.
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- * * * * * * * * * * * Command Line Options * * * * * * * *
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- There are no command line options with the Windows 2000 ASPI software.
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