DASP may refer to any of the following:

  1. Short for Drive Active Slave Present, DASP is an ATA signal carried on pin 39 that indicates if a drive is active. Then, lets the computer know if a secondary drive is present. If you’re using an older secondary drive with a new primary drive that doesn’t detect, look for an SP jumper, a firmware update, or consider a different channel.

  2. Short for Disk Anti-Shock Protection, DASP is a protection system developed by Acer that helps protect a hard drive in a laptop computer from being damaged when it’s bumped or dropped.

  3. Short for Dynamic Adaptive Speculative Pre-Processor, DASP is a memory prefetch technology developed by Nvidia that helps reduce memory latency.

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