TITLE:              ASPICD.SYS (for EISA SCSI card) Won't Load
DOCUMENT ID:        TID15095
DOCUMENT REVISION:  1
DATE:               14MAR95
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
README FOR:         NA

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
Novell DOS 7

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SYMPTOM:

"Adaptec ASPI Driver not available, CD-ROM driver NOT LOADED: No
valid Adaptec host adapter."

TROUBLESHOOTING:

Customers have 486/66 EISA machines with a EISA SCSI cards.  Attached
to the SCSI card is an internal hard drive and an external CD ROM. 
The BIOS recognizes both the hard drive and the CD ROM, ASPI7DOS.SYS
driver in the config.sys loads OK as well.  But,  when the ASPICD.SYS
driver tries to load in the CONFIG.SYS it insists that the
ASPI7DOS.SYS did not load --- exact error message is "Adaptec ASPI
Driver not available CD-ROM driver NOT LOADED:No valid Adaptec host
adapter."   Even with a vanilla boot (i.e. nothing in CONFIG.SYS but
these two drivers) the error still occurs.  The ASPICD.SYS driver
does load  with MS DOS 6.2 and DR DOS 6.0 -- 4/92 (but fails with the
DR DOS 6.0 3/93 update).  I downloaded the ADAPTEC update file and
rev'ed the ASPI drivers up to 3.0, but it made no difference.   I
tested with a BUSLOGIC EISA SCSI card and its drivers--this
configuration *DOES* work.

SOLUTION:

There is now a newer driver available from Adaptec which addresses
this issue (SPR 998074).

Keywords: nd7 7.0 7.00

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