ASPI8XX

• ASPI applications
• Allows up to eight host adapters
• Release of initialization code for smaller run time size
• Works with or without SDMS 4.XX Boot ROM (LSI Logic no longer supports the SDMS 3.XX Boot ROM)
• Synchronous negotiation
• Wide SCSI
• Target Initiated Negotiation (TIN)
• Full VDS support, including scatter/gather
• Disconnect/Reselect
• Adapter exclusion
• Shared interrupts
• Single-threaded I/O
• DMI NVS (can read device configuration information from NVS when NVRAM on the host adapter is not present.)
• LSI Logic usage of PCI Subsystem ID to control various features and configuration settings.
• Booting from a CD-ROM
• A 66 MHz PCI bus
• Up to Ultra160 SCSI (160 Mbytes/s when using Wide SCSI) including: Parallel Protocol Request (PPR), Double Transition (DT) data transfers, Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)

The ASPI8XX.SYS device driver is an ASPI manager that provides an interface to popular ASPI applications. This driver is required when you want to use SYMDISK.SYS or SYMCD.SYS or whenever you want to run an ASPI application.

This interface replaces an SDMS BIOS ASPI8XX(if present), and fully supports all devices supported by the BIOS. If an SDMS BIOS is not present, only an ASPI interface is provided.