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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Path: sparky!uunet!bif!mike
- From: mike@cd.com (Mike Heins)
- Subject: Re: Loadable scsi device drivers ??
- Message-ID: <Bxu5vv.BK8@cd.com>
- Organization: Central Data Corp., Champaign, IL
- References: <LARRY.92Nov16093642@shark.mitra.com> <STEINAR.HAUG.92Nov16204932@delab.sintef.no>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:09:30 GMT
- Lines: 24
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- (Steinar Haug) writes:
- >larry@shark.mitra.com (Larry Williamson) writes:
- >> Sun's loadable device drivers seem like a real nice thing.
- >>
- >> Can this technique be used for a scsi driver, considering most scsi
- >> drivers are called (xxprobe()) at boot time?
- >
- >Sorry, the answer is no. In SunOS 4.1.x you cannot have loadable SCSI
- >drivers. (Yes, it would have been nice...) In Solaris 2.x, yes.
- >
-
- It is only theoretically impossible. In practice, it can be done. We
- use it for our scsiTerminal Server driver.
-
- But Sun doesn't support it. One of our engineers reversed his
- direction and figured out how to do it. It has remained consistent
- enough in implementation so as to work unchanged from 4.1 to 4.1.3.
-
- Regards,
- Mike Heins
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