This is the first relase of the IN-2000 ASPI manager.  Copy the file
ASPIDRVR.SYS to your boot disk and add the following line to your
config.sys file:

  DEVICE=d:\path\ASPIDRVR.SYS
    
  where d:\path\ is the drive and directory that you copied the 
  ASPI driver to.

Currently there are no parameters on the "DEVICE=" line.





NOTES:
====== 

If you are using an IN-2000 without any hard drives attached, you
will get a message: "Always Int13 handler not loaded".  This is not a
problem, since the Int 13 handler is used only to handle disk
requests for DOS.  If an IN-2000 is being used without a hard drive
(i.e for tape), the BIOS need not be enabled.  The ASPI driver will
find the adapter without the BIOS being enabled.  ASPI will support
multiple IN-200s in the system (up to four).

ASPI requires interrupts from the board be enabled.  This is a
conflict with the DOS 5.0 support which is enabled with switches
5-6-7 all on.  This is only a problem if you are using more than two
hard drives under DOS.  A new BIOS (VCN: 1-03) is planned to
eliminate this conflict.

Always load disk caching software (SMARTDRV, NCACHE, PC-KWICK, etc)
AFTER the ASPI driver.  Most of these packages work by hooking the
disk interface interrupt (interrupt 13h), which is replaced by the
ASPI driver.

Once the ASPI driver is loaded, you MUST NOT use any apllications
which use the older IN-2000 SCSI Shell interface.  Such applications
include: Always CD-ROM driver, Ver 0.8 and earlier; NovaStor's
NovaBack IN-2000 drivers; and the Always supplied Sytos Plus tape
drivers.  Also, do not use the BIOS diagnostic or low-level format
functions (from debug) while the ASPI driver is loaded.  Both
NovaBack and Sytos Plus are shipped with ASPI compatable drivers.

There will be a new release of the CD-ROM driver in the near future,
which will run with ASPI.  The drivers supplied by Sytron have been
tested and work with this version of the ASPI driver.  The Corel
applications for CD-ROM, tape, and removable media hav been tested
with the IN-2000 ASPI.

The ASPI driver requires Hardware version 2.7 (labeled on the 8-pin
SPROM on the board) on the IN-2000 SCSI adapter.  If an IN-2000 in
your system has an SPROM version other than 2.7, the driver will
print a message, and ignore the adapter.




Software Products tested with IN-2000 ASPI:
===========================================

Corel's SCSI CD-ROM, tape, WORM, etc. drivers.

Gazelle's Back-It (DOS version)

Sytron's Sytos Plus distributed drivers.

IOMega's OAD drivers for Bernoulli drives

InSite Peripherals floptical driver

Fortunet's NSURE backup utility


Revision History:
=================


VCN: 461-9
----------
Fixed a probelm working with SMARTDRV's lazy write

Change version numbering scheme



Ver 0.9
--------
Fixed cold boot problem


Ver 0.8
--------
Corrected hanging problems, usually exhibited by SyTos Plus.

Increased startup delay, to help some drives which had problems,
recover from the initial SCSI bus reset.


ver 0.7
-------- 
Corrected boot time problem which would report "Bad or missing..."
files in your config.sys.

Improved SCSI transfer rate.


ver 0.6 
--------
Corrected problem with Memory managers and smartdrv.exe.


ver 0.5d
--------
Corrected problem working with Insight floptical driver.