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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: Re: Suggestion to somebody who's really bored (hack SCSI driver!)
Message-ID: <1992Jul29.062609.25656@tfs.com>
Keywords: SCSI, ugly, 386bsd, boredom, project, driver, panic, crash, burn
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
References: <14ojmoINN8j4@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:26:09 GMT
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I have a full scsi subsystem that autoconfigures itself
It has been made available to the mach people at cmu and so
is available.
It runs on mach2.5, OSF/1 and has run on the Net2 release here
in house.
It is available if someone has the time to make the minor hacks needed
to get it working under the jolitz distribion:
needs:
The disk driver assumes MACH FS layout but could be changed by dumping
the wd driver onto the top of it
The config files would need to be tailored to suit it.
features:
FULLY adapter independent. Presently runs on adapted 1542b
and bustek 742a (EISA) in Native mode.
I will be writing the native mode for the adaptec 1740 in the next couple
of weeks.
Autoconfigures. Quieries the scsi bus and attaches what ever it finds
to the closes approximatin driver it has available
is running solidly in several comercial sites.
supports generic retries and timeouts on all commands.
has been seen to run on
1/ many scsi disks
2. wangdat dat drive
3. cypher 3480 compatible tape drive
4. exabyte
5. Calera csci print recog. engine
6. AEG hand-print recog engine.
(5 and 6 are proprietary sub drivers, but it took
a couple of hours to impliment them each.)
Things I'd LOVE to see:
someone to take it and merge in the better bits of Pace's drivers
and port it to BSD386 (or was that 386BSD? 8-)
It's VERY modular and has quite good performance.
If someone does this, I will supply a working 1740 NATIVE
mode driver as well in a few weeks (THAT will give performance!)
Philsuth? you interested?
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