Subject: Re: DSSI driver ?
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@camaronet.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/25/2000 17:32:01
Hi !

On Tue, 25 Jan 100, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > it seems I have these disk controllers and disk in my uVAX 3300:
> > DSSI Node 0 (SYSDSK)
> > -DIA0 (RF30)
> > 
> > DSSI Node 1 (UTIDSK)
> > -DIA1 (RF30)
> > 
> > But could't find a driver for it. -current has:
> > #shac0          at ibus0                # DSSI controller
> > in GENERIC, but there doesn't seem to be any source file attached to it.
> > Did I miss something ? If not, how hard would it be to write a driver
> > for this ?
> > 
> It is quite hard to write a driver, mostly due to lack of good docs. 
> I have looked at it once, but haven't had time yet to dig deeper into it.

I also looked in it. Without docs of the DSSI protocol, a driver for the SHAC
is not very useful... SHAC docs are here, but DSSI docs are missing...

...Michael

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