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APA-1480 Enabler for DOS Introduction v
Introduction
This manual provides an overview of the Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480 CardBus
Host Adapter (APA-1480) for DOS.
APA-1480 Enabler is a small, but powerful driver supporting Adaptec
APA-1480 SlimSCSI CardBus cards and fully compatible with Adaptec ASPI
Manager ASPI8DOS.SYS.
Due to the small memory footprint of the resident part the enabler is an ideal
solution for use in various disk-cloning schemes. Both, Symantec Norton Ghost
and Power Quest Disk Copy, are supported.
Features and Limitations
APA-1480 Enabler supports both, original DOS (e.g. MS-DOS 6.22) as well as
DOS included with Windows 95/98. Resident part of APA-1480 Enabler
occupies approximately 1 kB of memory or larger, depend from used features.
APA-1480 Enabler can be loaded via CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, or
simply started from DOS command prompt. However for use APA-1480
Enabler with Adaptec ASPI manager ASPI8DOS.SYS you have to load driver
in CONFIG.SYS.
APA-1480 Enabler can be unloaded, except if it is loaded from CONFIG.SYS.
Besides APA-1480 Enabler prevents second load of itself.
APA-1480 Enabler may provide support of Adaptec APA-1480 SlimSCSI
CardBus cards without load Adaptec ASPI Manager ASPI8DOS.SYS.
APA-1480 Enabler may provide support of SCSI devices without load driver
for your device.
APA-1480 Enabler may provide full LBA support for disks of any size. Large
disks are supported.
APA-1480 Enabler may provide full INT 13h support, including extension.
Most utilities (FORMAT.COM, FDISK.EXE, Norton Utilities, etc.) are
supported.
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