INFO: ASPI on Windows NT Is Not Supported by Microsoft

ID: Q182542

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Win32 Device Driver Kit (DDK) for Windows NT, versions 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4.0

SUMMARY

The Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI) software interface is not supported by Microsoft on Windows NT. The ASPI for Win32 is available from Adaptec Corporation and can be downloaded from http://www.adaptec.com. Contact Adaptec for questions on ASPI installation, use, or coding.

On Windows NT, Microsoft provides and supports the SCSI Pass Through Interface (SPTI) as a method to send SCSI requests to peripherals. There is a SCSI Pass Through sample on the Win32 DDK. For Windows NT DDK version 4.0, the SPTI sample is in \ddk\src\storage\class\spti.

MORE INFORMATION

For information about how to contact Adaptec, query in the Microsoft Knowledge Base for one of the following articles:

Q65416 Hardware and Software Third-Party Vendor Contact List, A-K

The third-party products discussed here are manufactured by vendors independent of Microsoft; we make no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding these products' performance or reliability.

Additional query words: ASPI32


Keywords          : ntddkstorage 
Version           : WINNT:3.1,3.5,3.51,4.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbinfo

Last Reviewed: March 5, 1999