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- From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
- Subject: Re: Suggestion to somebody who's really bored (hack SCSI driver!)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.062609.25656@tfs.com>
- Keywords: SCSI, ugly, 386bsd, boredom, project, driver, panic, crash, burn
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
- References: <14ojmoINN8j4@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:26:09 GMT
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- I have a full scsi subsystem that autoconfigures itself
- It has been made available to the mach people at cmu and so
- is available.
-
- It runs on mach2.5, OSF/1 and has run on the Net2 release here
- in house.
-
- It is available if someone has the time to make the minor hacks needed
- to get it working under the jolitz distribion:
-
- needs:
- The disk driver assumes MACH FS layout but could be changed by dumping
- the wd driver onto the top of it
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- The config files would need to be tailored to suit it.
-
- features:
-
- FULLY adapter independent. Presently runs on adapted 1542b
- and bustek 742a (EISA) in Native mode.
- I will be writing the native mode for the adaptec 1740 in the next couple
- of weeks.
-
- Autoconfigures. Quieries the scsi bus and attaches what ever it finds
- to the closes approximatin driver it has available
-
- is running solidly in several comercial sites.
-
- supports generic retries and timeouts on all commands.
-
- has been seen to run on
- 1/ many scsi disks
- 2. wangdat dat drive
- 3. cypher 3480 compatible tape drive
- 4. exabyte
- 5. Calera csci print recog. engine
- 6. AEG hand-print recog engine.
-
- (5 and 6 are proprietary sub drivers, but it took
- a couple of hours to impliment them each.)
-
- Things I'd LOVE to see:
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- someone to take it and merge in the better bits of Pace's drivers
- and port it to BSD386 (or was that 386BSD? 8-)
-
- It's VERY modular and has quite good performance.
- If someone does this, I will supply a working 1740 NATIVE
- mode driver as well in a few weeks (THAT will give performance!)
-
- Philsuth? you interested?
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