I have a SCSI scanner that needs an aspi driver to work. The aspi driver is OK with Windows XP but - according to instructions - not with Windows 7. I have a Windows. There are many different ASPI layers out there, and Frog ASPI is a great little ASPI layer 'shim' that translates ASPI c. May 21, 2015 I've been trying to find a way to get ASPI drivers to work under Windows 7 x64, but I'm not having much luck. The one included with CDRWIN doesn't detect my. Ag book rounded font free. Neither worked. I ran all the commands and was able to get all of the OSes working Windows 7 is Step 2. But somebody made this: Frog Aspi - Frog Aspi. Today I would like to discuss a few useful tricks for Windows XP x64. But this time around, it’s at least partially about stuff that you can’t easily find on the Internet anymore, whether it’s the information or the actual software part that’s missing. There are several software components that are sometimes hard to use or find for XP x64. Some are even hard to set up for regular 32-bit Windows XP. The following solutions will be discussed: • 1.) The ASPI Layer (digital media access) • 2.) UDF 2.5 (for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD access) • 3.) exFAT (some modern cameras etc. Need this file system) • 4.) EXT2/3/4 (for Linux and UNIX compatibility) • 5.) Universal SSD TRIM (keep your SSD clean, tidy and fast, like on modern systems) So, let’s start with #1: 1.) The ASPI layer: Edit: Note that in the meantime, the FrogASPI solution described here is no longer the only option. Another one that works even for 64-bit applications accessing the ASPI layer has been found, see further below! 1.a) FrogASPI: One of those things that have been abandoned by Microsoft is the ASPI layer, the Advanced SCSI Programming Interface. Meant as a way for digital storage media access it was most prominently used to read from optical drives digitally (also on ATA, not just SCSI), so you didn’t need to rip audio CDs via MSCDEX on Win98 or via the crappy analog link from your drive to the sound card. ASPI can also be used to access other types of storage devices, but this is the most important part. Some older software, like my beloved Xing AudioCatalyst (an ancient CD ripper including the Fraunhofer mp3 encoder) might still need ASPI to access audio CDs. However, Adaptec stopped shipping ASPI drivers for Microsoft Windows after Microsoft had abandoned the API and introduced its own replacement called SPTI, the SCSI PassThrough Interface. As a matter of fact, you can still install Adaptecs ASPI layer on 32-Bit Windows XP, as it includes a working 32-Bit kernel driver. So for 32-Bit XP, it’s still fine. However, there is no such driver for XP x64 (and also not for 32/64-Bit Vista/7/8). So, no ASPI at all? For a loong time I indeed had to live without it, until I found that french guy named Millenod (That’s his nick name, I will not disclose his real name) who had written a 100% userspace ASPI layer, that would work on any newer Windows operating system on x86, no matter the bitness. This is called FrogASPI, and unfortunately, Millenods website for it is down by now. In its core, it is actually just an SPTI wrapper. Back in those days, I even wrote the guy an email, thanking him for his work. Here is a part of his reply: “FrogAspi is effectively an SPTI wrapper. I decided to work in “user” mode, instead of kernel ones, for many reasons. It was for me the fastest way to implement a generic ASPI layer, which is not OS specific as drivers.” -Millenod, Developer of FrogASPI After renaming the FrogAspi.dll to the proper name wnaspi32.dll and putting it into%WINDIR% SysWOW64 for 64-Bit Windows, it can be used by any ASPI-enabled application. For 32-Bit Windows, please use%WINDIR% system32! See, what Adaptecs own aspichk.exe has to say about what we just did: You’ll see that some files are reported as missing. You do not have to care about that though, ASPI32.SYS would’ve been the 32-Bit kernel driver, WOWPOST.EXE is a 16-Bit Windows ASPI helper tool, WINASPI.DLL the corresponding 16-Bit Windows driver. None of those are needed. Now, that FrogASPI is mapping all ASPI calls to SPTI, we can begin to actively use it even on 64-Bit Windows. See AudioCatalyst for instance, with ASPI being available: AudioCatalyst reading the Postal Original Soundtrack CD using FrogASPI As you can see, everything works just fine. Oh, and besides, in case you want AudioCatalysts CDDB feature back (as shown in this screenshot), just add the following lines to your AudioCatalyst.ini, sitting in the programs installation folder, this’ll switch from the now-broken CDDB to FreeDB.
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