Dear List Friends, I bought an Adaptec (used to be Trantor) parallel-port APA-358 MiniSCSI EPP host adapter to use on my Thinkpad 560 running Windows 95 (pre-installed version 4.00.950). Windows successfully did a hardware search, found it, installed it and it shows up in the System folder as working and with no exclamation marks or 'X's. A correctly installed CD-ROM drive (Plextor, Panasonic PD, Sony, Toshiba - I have tried them all) attached to the adapter does not show up, however. In fact, no attached SCSI devices that I have tried show up under Windows at all. Termination is active and term-power is on. I have tried SCSI addresses 0-6 (the adapter is on 7), the host adapter always shows up, but attached devices are never shown. I don't use a config.sys or autoexec.bat, so there are no entries there. I installed Adaptec EZ-SCSI 4.0, but when I click on SCSI Explorer I get an error message "could not initialize ASPI for win32!" ! BUT ! - if I reboot into a DOS session (Win95 DOS box) the CD-ROM works perfectly. Two questions: 1) Does anyone have any experience with the APA-358 (previously T-358) and Win95? 2) Does anyone know what the error message "could not initialize ASPI for win32" implies? I thought WIN95 automatically provides ASPI support. (Sorry, I am not very Windows literate, I use OS/2 Warp on all of my computers except on the Thinkpad, which came with WIN95 preloaded and I haven't had a CD-ROM until now to install Warp). I pretty much rule out a hardware failure because the DOS drivers work fine...or am I jumping to conclusions here? The adapter works fine on a desktop computer running Warp, with the OS/2 drivers. I apologize for the length of this request. Thanks for any help. Respectfully, Bruce -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruce Boschek - Haus Christiansruh - Nidda, Germany [log in to unmask] - CompuServe ID 100331,2566 Using IBM OS/2 Warp Connect and MR/2ice (Registered) ------------------------------------------------------------------