Nero InfoTool allows you to call up information about the most important features of installed drives, inserted discs, installed software and much more. You obtain detailed data on drive properties such as firmware, buffer size, serial number, production date and, for DVD drives, the current DVD region code. Furthermore, Nero InfoTool tells you the name and version number of the operating system, the ASPI manager, and the installed burning applications and also tells you about the hardware configuration of the computer.
Nero InfoTool supports the Screenreader technology (screen reading program). This is an alternative user interface with which the written items can be output acoustically from the screen.
| Firmware |
Firmware is software that has been installed on hardware during production (e.g. recorder, USB device, etc.). It is used for communication between the respective hardware and other software, e.g. when a USB device is connected to a PC.
| Advanced SCSI Programming Interface (ASPI) |
The advanced SCCI programming interface is the interface between the software, the SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) card and the operating system of a PC. This permits communication between the SCSI device (e.g. a SCSI scanner) and the SCSI card. However, ASPI drivers are also required for ATA, ATAPI, USB and FireWire interfaces.