Hi Bruno -

Despite your warning I went out and got an Adaptec contoller card today. It's a 29160, essentially the same as your 19160. I installed a while ago, hoping to see improved RIP speed, but it is actually worse. I was getting about 24X with my cheapo card. I spent a couple hundred bucks for this new card and I'm getting 11X best now. I spoke with Adaptec tech support, and he had me bring the sync rate down to 40 Mb from the cards 160 fdefault, but it made no difference. I asked them about your ASPI observations and they told me ASPI is no longer used - in fact it was not used in W2K, Me, or XP (I have XP). So I'm a little confused with your previous post about ASPI 4.6. What OS are you running? Any feedback would be most appreciated.

Joe