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- From: root@rwsys.UUCP (Superuser)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Distribution: world
- Subject: Re: Another Sob Story
- References: <9208241302.aa04703@VGR.BRL.MIL>
- Message-ID: <9208255945@rwsys.UUCP>
- Organization: "rwsys" Data Communications, Surrey, BC, Canada
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 11:19:13 +0100
- Lines: 43
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- dnielsen@LETTERKENN-EMH1.ARMY.MIL (Daniel A Nielsen) writes:
- > I see a common theme among some of the messages, people desperately wanting to
- > use coherent on their systems, but unable to due to some uniqueness of their
- > system. My case is similar. About a year ago, I bought a 33Mhz, 486, 4M RAM
- > w 256K mem cache, FASTCACHE32 SCSI controller with 2M mem cache, 160M HD
- > and SVGA card w .25 dot pitch monitor. A big step up from my Tandy 1400LT with
- > 720K floppies. While I was doing this my main intent was to put coherent on it.
- > After getting the system up and running I find out I need a special driver to
- > run coherent, will probably have to write it myself and to do this I need to
- > buy a device driver kit and use it on a coherent system. Well this has kind of
- > dashed my hopes, but I still have a glimmer left! Is there someone out
- > there with coherent and a device kit that I could send code to for compilation?
- >
- > I would like to make a driver for the 32 bit Ver 4., but I'm in no position
- > to be fussy! 8-) . If successful I think it would help expand coherent's
- > market, but then if drivers were easy to do wouldn't MWC be punching out a lot
- > more of them?
- >
- > Any replies (sympathy or fellow sob stories) will be appreciated 8-).
- >
- > regards
- > dan
- >
- > dnielsen@letterkenn-emn1.army.mil
- >
- I dont' understand which driver you need, eg: video, disk drive, serial
- port. The 386 device driver kit hasn't been released yet, as far as I know.
- I expect that while 4.0 can run applications written for the '286, it may
- not run device drivers written for 3.x.
-
- At any rate, I suspect that you are wanting a device driver for your SCSI
- equipment. In order to write such a beast, not only will the author need
- a device driver kit, they will need specific information on the hardware's
- i/o workings and a copy of the hardware itself in order to do the debugging.
-
- If you are going to attempt to write the device driver, start as soon as
- possible trying to get the technical data on the hardware. I have found
- manufacturers to be tight lipped, even when the creation of a public domain
- driver would expand their markets. Of course, some manufacuters are willing
- to provide technical data.
-
- Yours Truly,
- Randy Wright
-