Subject: Re: 1.4.1 Generic kernel doesn't recognize Apollo SCSI ?
To: NetBSD Amiga mailing list <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Gareth Davis <gareth.davis@kcl.ac.uk>
List: port-amiga
Date: 10/02/1999 22:07:21
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

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> 
> If somebody knows how to write a driver for it, do so, and share with your
> co-apollonians by providing it to the public.
> 

I would love to give it a go, currently my CD-Rom, Jaz, Zip and DDS drives
are inaccessable to NetBSD. Problem is that ACT are not forthcoming with
the necessary info to write a driver - or *ANY* info for that matter!

Just out of interest, how difficult a task is it to write a SCSI driver?
Once/if ACT do get round to telling me how to send SCSI commands and read
the results, how would I write this into a driver? Are their any NetBSD
SCSI tutorials/FAQs online with this information? I have done plenty of OS
level programming in C before, but not on NetBSD so any pointers would be
appreciated.

Could anybody else who is interested in building this driver email me
privatly so I can gauge demand - and maybe build up a list of potential
co-developers and beta-testers for the project.

Cheers all,

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Gareth Davis                                         gareth.davis@kcl.ac.uk
Department of Computer Science                        King's College London
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