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- From: adne@ddb.be.statoil.no (Adne Hestenes)
- Subject: Re: Loadable scsi device drivers ??
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.091943.1092@statoil.no>
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- Reply-To: adne@ddb.be.statoil.no (Adne Hestenes)
- Organization: Statoil
- References: <LARRY.92Nov16093642@shark.mitra.com> <STEINAR.HAUG.92Nov16204932@delab.sintef.no> <Bxu5vv.BK8@cd.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:19:43 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <Bxu5vv.BK8@cd.com>, mike@cd.com (Mike Heins) writes:
- > (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
- > ------------------------
- > Central Data Corporation "Makers of the scsiTerminal Server"
- > 1602 Newton Drive (800) 482-0315
- > Champaign, IL 61821 mike@cd.com or ..!uunet!cendata!mike
-
- I bought a loadable SCSI device driver for Sun, which was used for an X-ray
- scanner.
- I worked well...
-
- Regards
- Adne Hestenes
- BDC
- Norway
-