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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: gvpscsi.device
- Message-ID: <2202747b.0@amuc.mtroyal.ab.ca>
- From: 637684755@amuc.mtroyal.ab.ca (MCollette)
- Date: 31 Jan 96 00:10:35 MST
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- Organization: The AMiga Users of Calgary
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- Speaking of gvpscsi.device, I lost mine. Can someone Email it to me?
- > In article <4d5isu$h61@arcturus.ciril.fr>,
- > Thierry.DeCarvalho@scinfo.u-nancy.fr (Thierry De Carvalho) wrote:
- > >Where can I found informations in order to program the SCSI controler
- > >of a GVP combo board ???
- > >
- > >(without using gvpscsi.device or any other *.device)
- >
- > I cannot tell you how strongly I recommend against doing that other than to say
- > that six months after you start trying to make it stable and effective and fast
- > you will probably suicide unless you are in the Ralph Babel levels of
- > programming abilities or above.
- >
- > 1) You need board schematics.
- >
- > 2) You need documentation for all the major parts on the board.
- >
- > 3) You need the complete Autodocs and Includes files.
- >
- > 4) You need to carefully read and fully understand the SCSI-2 specification
- > *AND* its implications for the devices you wish to control.
- >
- > While the latter two are easily available and the second is fairly easy to get
- > from parts manufacturers the first one will take you considerable effort to
- > reverse engineer the board AND the programmable devices on it. Since this is
- > what makes the board what it is you can almost take it to the bank that GVP or
- > its successors will not release that information lightly.
- >
- > What is it you want to do? (If it is SCSI IO with the OS disabled I'd recommend
- > kissing it off.)
- >
- > {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
- > jdow@bix.com, jdow@delphi.com, jdow@mci.newscorp.com
- >
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