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Subject: LMI Forth(s)
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Date: 27 May 90 03:03:40 GMT
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 Date: 05-24-90 (10:41)              Number: 601 (Echo)
   To: RAY DUNCAN                    Refer#: NONE
 From: BOB BARTLOME                    Read: 05-24-90 (18:15)
 Subj: SCSI/386                      Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE

 Hi, you have been very helpful in the past, so here goes:
 I am interfacing a digital audio tape (DAT). A 386 (DOS 3.3) is being
 used as a test-bed to exercise the DAT for the Quality Control
 Department.  The results of final test will be stored on disk and
 available for printout in  a number of formats. I have both a Future
 DOmain SCSI interface card and an Adaptec Interface card. Neither
 company supplies (or has available) a device driver for MS-DOS.  They
 assume that the device hooked to it will be the system disk drive and
 use the standard dos driver for disks? I need to be able to send
 individual commands (load, goto BOT, read, write, unload, etc.) to the S
 SCSI device.  Programming to be done in Forth 3.2+.  Once I can issue
 commands to the SCSI/DAT, everything else is a piece-of-cake(relative).

 Do you have any examples of forth code drivers, DMA drivers, any hints,
 suggestions? Any recommended books on the subject?  If I can get the
 SCSI/DAT to respond to commands and xfer simple data, then it will be a
 successful project and another accomplishmnet for Forth! 

 Right now, just a little confused about even rudimently forcing a
 command to the device.  ANY help or comments greatly appreciated. Time
 is very short. Thanks in advance...

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