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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: DPT SCSI Adaptor,possible? Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 15:44:43 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 17 Message-ID: <31017E6B.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4d5712$gfk@netnews.nctu.edu.tw> <30F68DA6.4487EB71@FreeBSD.org> <4dlrl5$kd9@kfaserv1.kfdata.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0b6a (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) To: Hans Petter Fasteng <hansf@kfaserv1.kfdata.no> Hans Petter Fasteng wrote: > : Since the core developers have neither the time nor the hardware > : resources (we don't own DPT controllers or there would probably be > : driver support already! :-) to do this, it probably won't happen any > : other way! :-( > > Where wold you find (if any) documentation for doing sutch work on > FreeBSD? Well, first you'd need to find a friendly ear somewhere at DPT to give you the technical specifications for the board - where its control regisers are, how its mailboxes work, etc. Then, if you're like every other driver writer, you look at 2 or 3 existing examples and then clone the one you like best.. :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project