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From: watmath!enme.UCalgary.CA!deraadt@uunet.uu.net (Theo de Raadt)
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Subject: raw scsi to unknown device
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Is there a way to talk to an arbitrary device that I may want to stick on
the SCSI bus without writing a device driver on the Sun side? What we
really want to do is transfer a block of data between a Sun and a VME 030
board we have. We are not running a kernel there yet (the whole point of
this matter) and thus we can write whatever is required to read the data.
Should we try to emulate a tape drive? Does the Sun send commands to all
the scsi devices at boot time to find out what they are?  <tdr.

Theo de Raadt    Cpsc student    (403) 289-5894     Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Human Being:  Organic computer with approximately 70 years mean time between
              absolute failure.