You CAN use native support for Win2K and EAC, but even the author of EAC admits it will work better with ASPI installed. ASPI is primarily a SCSI interface (that's what the "S" stands for) but it also works for IDE and in fact, all at least AudioGrabber and EAC prefer to use it. I was ripping with native support, but you get no error feedback and the rips aren't as error free because of it. Adaptec just released a generic ASPI driver that finally doesn't require you to have an Adaptec device in order to use it.

I don't have SCSI