SCSI Pass Through Interface (SPTI) is an

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(API) accessing a

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device. It is developed by Microsoft Corporation and is part of the

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family of operating systems.

Overview

The storage port drivers provide an interface for Win32 applications to send SCSI Command Descriptor Block (CDB) messages to SCSI devices. The interfaces are IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH and IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH_DIRECT. Applications can build a pass-through request and send it to the device by using this IOCTL. SPTI is accessible to Windows software using the DeviceIoControl

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offers SPTI as a method for accessing optical disc drives.

Other SCSI interfaces

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** ''ASAPI'' by VOB Computersysteme GmbH and Pinnacle Systems ** ''ElbyCDIO'' by

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(SPTD)'' by Duplex Secure, Ltd. * The SCSI pass-through driver for

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is called "SCSI generic" ()

Overview

Other SCSI interfaces

References

Further reading