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About the ASPI8XX.SYS Driver

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6.3 About the ASPI8XX.SYS Driver

This section describes the characteristics of the

ASPI8XX.SYS

driver

and provides installation instructions.

6.3.1 Features

The

ASPI8XX.SYS

driver supports these features:

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)

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