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From: hd@world.std.com (HD Associates)
Subject: Re: User SCSI
Message-ID: <CqxK5r.C7q@world.std.com>
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
References: <Cqon5K.JFC@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <Cqvn56.AHo@tfs.com>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 15:25:03 GMT
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In article <Cqvn56.AHo@tfs.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@tfs.com> wrote:
>In article <Cqon5K.JFC@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
>>I'm trying to write a driver for a HP ScanJet, using the "unknown"
>>SCSI device (ie I'm trying to do it all in user mode).  I'm trying to
(...)
>>Alternatively, does anyone have a better user-mode scsi driver?
>as I said.. peter Dufault (HD@world.std.com) has been doing some on this.

I have a habit of vanishing under a heavy work load for months at a time,
and too frequently it has nothing to do with *bsd.

People trying to use the user SCSI on FreeBSD should look at the nicer
interface in freefall.cdrom.com:/pub/incoming/sutar2.gz.  It abandons
the attempt to be compatable with the SGI interface, but is a lot easier
to hack and is oriented toward table driven apps.  It uses the same
ioctl and requires a few kernel patches that are included in that .gz file.

>julian

Peter

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Peter Dufault               Real Time Machine Control and Simulation
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