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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Card:Procom woes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.064911.13332@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1992Aug31.044201.961@cs.uow.edu.au>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:49:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug31.044201.961@cs.uow.edu.au> u9050728@cs.uow.edu.au (Shane Kelvin Richards) writes:
- >
- > I own a scsi card a "Procom" (its 8bit). Now for this to run on my
- >dos system it needs a dos driver, I am just looking at the manual and it
- >says the driver is only needed to allow DOS to access more than 2 non-floppy
- >disk drives and so that DOS can handle removable scsi-media.
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- > Is there any way at all Linux can be made to "see" the scsi card
- >and thus my scsi HD. I have a 330meg scsi hard drive which I would love to
- >be able to use with linux (at the moment I have had to partition off a
- >40meg ide drive - so that linux only has about 20meg at the moment).
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- If you have the motivation, you could write a low level SCSI driver
- for it. This would amount to 400-1000 lines of kernel code, and
- if you can't get docs, reverse engineering the SCSI BIOS.
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- An easier solution would be to run a different SCSI controller,
- although you may have to reformat the drive because of different
- mapping conventions.
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- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
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