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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
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Allows up to eight host adapters
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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)
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Synchronous negotiation
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Wide SCSI
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Target Initiated Negotiation (TIN)
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Full VDS support, including scatter/gather
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Disconnect/Reselect
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Adapter exclusion
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Shared interrupts
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Single-threaded I/O
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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.
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Booting from a CD-ROM
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A 66 MHz PCI bus
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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)