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- From: kcozens@io.org (Kevin Cozens)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: SCSI driver programming?
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 13:04:54 GMT
- Organization: Internex Online (io.org), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- jds@kom.auc.dk (Jes Degn Soerensen) wrote:
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- >>>>>> "Frederick" == Frederick V Heitkamp <heitkamp@ibm.net> writes:
-
- >Frederick> I would like to attempt programming a SCSI driver for the
- >Frederick> Oktagon 2008 card under Amiga Linux. I've got a book from
- >Frederick> Symbios, an example program that is written towards, a PC
- >Frederick> (AT) bus system, the Linux SCSI paper doc, and kernel
- >Frederick> sources, and gcc 2.7.2.
-
- >Frederick> I am not real sure where to start. Is the SCSI programming
- >Frederick> for Amiga Linux much the same as the PC version? How do I
- >Frederick> find the base address where the chip is located? Any tips
- >Frederick> will be appreciated.
-
- >I think the best place to start is looking at the NetBSD sources - I
- >think they got a driver for that controller.
-
- >Jes
- >--
- >Jes Sorensen: jds@kom.auc.dk | If programming was ment to be fun,
- > jes@leech.adsp.sub.org | why did they come up with Intel?
-
- Yes. The BSD sources are a good place to start.
-
- Now before you get all hot and bothered thinking that BSD has an
- Oktagon driver, they don't. What they do have is a driver for the
- Fastlane card which uses the same controller chip (the 53c94). The big
- problem I have right now is knowing the addresses for the registers in
- the controller chip. I have been able to obtain the base address for
- the card (that part is dead easy). I also want to later (sooner?)
- figure out how to get Linux/68k to use the memory I have on the
- Oktagon board as part of the system memory. Its not as wide (bit wise)
- as the RAM on my A2630 card but it would be great to be able to use it
- to minimize swapping down the road.
-
-
- Cheers!
-
- Kevin. (http://www.io.org/~kcozens/)
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