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No "ASPI", Only "IDE" In UIDE. (Announce)

posted by avoskov, 02.11.2007, 01:35

> ASPI is a NIGHTMARE, and firms like Adaptec or Iomega are NOT friendly
> about providing DOS specs. Others who know ASPI can call UIDE's "external
> drive" logic or add a new "internal driver" to cache such drives.

I really understand problems with SCSI and ZIP drivers and even don't think about them - they are not widespread. But I'm speaking about another driver - ASPI emulation layer for IDE/ATAPI CD/DVD drives. Drive is IDE/ATAPI, software interface is ASPI. I think, that it may be a separate driver interacting with UIDE.
Scheme is:
DEVICE -- UIDE/UDVD/QCDROM -- ASPI EMULATOR (and MSCDEX) -- CDRECORD.EXE

Complete thread:

• New UIDE Releases. - Jack R. Ellis, 01.11.2007, 18:21 (Announce)
  • New UIDE Releases. - avoskov, 01.11.2007, 22:02
    • No "ASPI", Only "IDE" In UIDE. - Jack, 02.11.2007, 00:35
      • No "ASPI", Only "IDE" In UIDE. - avoskov, 02.11.2007, 01:35
        • ... UIDE Not Designed For This. - Jack, 02.11.2007, 02:25