Aspi is not properly installed

It's their code. But they did decide to no longer support their existing customers of their SCSI host adapters, that use applications that make use of the plus-year-old de-facto standard ASPI layer.

That statement is a non-sequieter No, they are not. It's a "business decision". However, when one chooses to not support one's own customers, traditionally, that has been bad for business.

If Adaptec wants to test out new, groundbreaking business models, that involve screwing over their existing customers, well, that is their right.

However, I think that over the long run, that is a very, very bad idea. How does this in any way relieve Adaptec of their responsibility of supporting their customers, by providing a working ASPI layer so that their customers can continue using their applications.

Because there were applications that used ASPI, that their customers used, and they chose to support their customers, in order to sell their SCSI host adapters.

It's a pretty simple equation. Reverse the equation for the opposite situation Buggies go out of fashion. Remember the situation with Win3. Trumpet was probably the most popular, although their were also commercial alternatives, like Beam and Whiteside, etc.

The point I'm trying to make repeatedly is, just because MS no longer bundles the Adaptec-derived ASPI layer interface code, does not mean that customers no longer have a need for such layer. In fact, I believe, that it is in fact Adaptec's responsibility, as well as in their and their customers best interest, to provide one.

Let Roxio do what Roxio wants. Just like WinSock This discussion is about the ASPI layer, the fact that Adaptec seems no longer willing to provide a working one for their customers, and that Roxio conveniently no longer uses it either in their applications. Trying to paint a picture that Roxio and Adaptec are percent wholly independent entities at this point, seems misleading as well.

I am curious, however. ForceASPI page gave links to the file after it was withdrawn from the site. Why stop at only have the program withdrawn? You don't get it, do you? I wrote: " I had assumed that the NERO-install would sniff the new 4. I can confirm this to be true as I was doing this myself. The simple cure was to copy the ASPI file into the app folder and its was sorted.

All I need now is to install a few more apps that make use of an ASPi layer, if I see that they sniff out the new layer and use it I will be pleased. They seems to be a few points of 'Disagreement' among you still, is there no way to come to some agreements over this, all posters have made a good contribution, obviously based on allot of real experience.

As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, if you rename the wnaspi Try it! Nero's infotool will tell you which version of ASPI is in play. Could you name 'newer' burn softwares that know how to use the XP "resident aspi? If a burn software requires an "external" aspi layer, is it classified as "older? Is it an "older" software? Up until ASPI 4. EXE, did not check for qualifying product. As a consequence it became a de facto standard. Why would anyone develop a software when one is readily available?

And I wouldn't be surprised if everybody believed this practice of free aspi would continue, and thus consider the Adaptec aspi as almost public software. Then along came 4. It may make a perfect business sense to Adaptec, but the checking is patently unfair and even unconscionable from user's point of view.

If Adaptec had in mind to hog-tie to their products, they should not have the aspi readily downloadable without any form of constraints from the beginning. I am sure I am not alone in regarding the Adaptec aspi as public software.

You could circumvent the qualifying product check of aspi 4. Ephemeron" ASPI for Win32 is not initialized! Wayne Youngman. Reply to author. Report message as abuse. Show original message. Either email addresses are anonymous for this group or you need the view member email addresses permission to view the original message.

In Windows 3. This support is the one we will be talking about. EXE provided below. Adaptec's used to help programmers providing them with the following: ASPI It returns a doubleword which must be split into three pieces. Bits are unused and set to zero.

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