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Technical Q&As: Device Drivers
Fibre Channel is a data-transfer architecture well suited for Storage Area Networks (SANs) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions. Fibre Channel uses a serial architecture to connect mass-storage devices to servers and other computers. Fibre Channel makes use of optical cabling and can attain data-transfer speeds up to 2 Gbit/s. Fibre Channel interfaces are available for Xserve hardware, and Fibre Channel is the primary interface for Xserve RAID hardware. Developers can use the I/O Kit programming interfaces to access devices that conform to the Fibre Channel standards.
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Generating an NMI Without a Programmer's Switch (HTML) ()
QA1264: Explains how to generate a non-maskable interrupt (NMI) on CPUs without programmer's switches.
 2004-04-26
Installing an I/O Kit KEXT Without Rebooting (HTML)
QA1319: Describes the state of the art of installing I/O Kit kernel extensions (KEXTs) without requiring a restart.
 2003-10-28
Mapping kernel memory to user space on Mac OS X 10.2 (HTML) ()
QA1197: Describes a change to mapping kernel memory to user space affecting Mac OS X 10.2 and later.
 2002-09-13
SCSIAction and IOSCSIUserClient on Mac OS X 10.2 (HTML) ()
QA1201: Describes migrating to a new API for SCSI Parallel devices starting with Mac OS X 10.2.
 2002-09-13
Sending SCSI commands to storage devices (HTML) ()
QA1179: Explains that Mac OS X does not implement SCSI pass-through for many mass storage devices.
 2002-08-06
IODeviceTree & the IORegistry (HTML) ()
QA1120: Describes the IODeviceTree plane in the Mac OS X IORegistry.
 2002-02-13
Power Management; Policy Maker vs. Power Controller (HTML) ()
QA1121: Describes the differences between a Power Management Policy Maker and a Power Management Power Controller.
 2002-02-13
IOKit Framework Headers (HTML) ()
QA1107: Describes the differences between the headers in IOKit.framework and the I/O Kit headers in Kernel.framework.
 2002-01-15
The dreaded "incompatible flag -framework" error (HTML)
QA1096: Explains how to eliminate the incompatible flag -framework error in Project Builder.
 2001-12-05
The "packages" node in the device tree (HTML)
HW90: Describes the "packages" node in the Open Firmware device tree.
 2000-09-05
Is the Open Firmware device tree object oriented? (HTML)
HW80: Discusses the object-oriented attributes of the Open Firmware device tree.
 1999-11-15
Expansion ROM device properties (HTML) ()
HW50: Describes the Open Firmware properties that should be included in a boot device's expansion ROM.
 1999-03-29
Getting started with Forth (HTML) ()
HW53: Describes where FCode driver developers can get information about the Forth programming language.
 1999-03-29