ASPI Problems

See All About ASPI for more information about ASPI.

If you are having problems seeing Akai, Roland, or other proprietary drives within Translator, you likely are having problems with the ASPI installation in your computer. It's not necessarily your fault. Many people run ASPI without problems.

Here's a guide on how to deal with it.

Here are a couple reasons ASPI does not work on your system:

• It is not installed
  If you are running Windows NT/2000/XP. it doesn't get installed with the Operating System, you have to do it yourself. Chicken Systems has licensed ASPI, so we can make ASPI available to you.
• The ASPI files are not "matched"
  There are several files that make ASPI work. They must be of the same version.
  You can check this by running aspichk.exe in your ASPI install directory - only pay attention to the files pertinent to your OS.
• You are running ASPI 4.7, and for some reason it does not work on your system
  There isn't any explanation why this is so, but we've seen it happen - see below.
• Other reasons
  We don't see why Adaptec makes this so confusing for certain systems

It Doesn't Work - How to get it to work

This is what we recommend:

• Windows 95/98/ME
  Manually remove these files from your computer - do a Find and remove all of them
  winaspi.dll - wnaspi32.dll - apix.vxd - aspienum.vxd - sparrow.mpd
• Download this zip file with all the ASPI stuff - click here.
  Open the .zip file in WinZip or your favorite unzipping utility
• Extract winaspi.dll, wnaspi32.dll, and aspienum.vxd into your system directory.
• Extract sparrow.mpd and apix.vxd into your iosubsys directory in your system directory.
• These are the original Windows95/98/ME distribution files - this is to get you back to installed Windows status
• Extract and run aspi32.exe, this will update the files to 4.06 (1021) status
• Extract and run aspichk.exe, this will help you see if all the files are matched and are the correct versions.
• If it still doesn't work, extract the wnaspi32_nero.dll file into your Translator folder, and rename it wnaspi32.dll.

Try rebooting between procedures; that might help. The ultimate test to see if ASPI is ACTUALLY working is to stick an Akai CD in your CD-ROM Drive, start Translator, and see if it show up. If it doesn't, go into Options-Drive tab to see if the drive is listed. If it's not - ASPI isn't working yet.

• Windows NT/2000/XP
  Get the latest updater of Translator, and check the ASPI 4.7 checkbox at the end of the install.
• Run aspichk.exe (in your Translator directory), this will help you see if all the files are matched and are the correct versions. Only pay attention to wnaspi32.dll and aspi32.sys. The other files are 16-bit oriented (they are called "thunkers") and are not necessary or needed.
• Try Translator again. If it still doesn't work, download this file - click here - and extract the wnaspi32_nero.dll file into your Translator folder, and rename it "wnaspi32.dll" (without the quotes, of course). What this does is to make Translator use that file, and not the wnaspi32.dll that is in the System directory.
• Try Translator again. If that doesn't work, follow the Window95/98/ME instructions.

Please ignore any warnings that the Windows 95/98/ME stuff does not work on Windows NT/2000/XP - it really does.