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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: On rewriting hddisk.device
Message-ID: <3336@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 28 Sep 90 02:41:33 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In Msg <1990Sep21.155844.14511@agora.uucp>,billsey@agora.uucp
(Bill Seymour) writes:
|In article <92650@srcsip.UUCP> carpent@SRC.Honeywell.COM
|Todd Carpenter) writes:
|: [..]
|:So, that brings on a serious question:  Has anyone managed to get
|:the A2090a patched up so it can be used with a SCSI tape?  I would
|:be willing to pay for it, even!  (I know, I could *pay* for a new
|:controller, too. But I only have 1 SCSI drive, and 4 ST506.  Another
|:SCSI controller doesn't do me a whole lot of good, especially since
|:I could hook up another 5 to this one, plus the tape drive.)
|:
|   I'm really suprised someone hasn't reverse engineered the
|2090/2090a device driver to fix all the incompatibilities with
|current standards. It sure seems like it'd be a good product. Charge
|$19.95 each and sell one to everyone who has one of those
|controllers.
|

    It's a good idea. I've thought of it, so I'm sure others have.
  It's also fairly difficult, IMHO. And I'm an inveterate
  disassembler. Have you looked at that code? There are some strange
  things going on therein. Have you noticed that the driver gets
  loaded to an expansion slot range,$E80000+ (depending on your cards
  I guess). Then there are the private fields in the IO.Struct.
    So, as far as I'm concerned, it's a project that gets intermittent
  attention.
    Has anybody ever tried to get the source code from CBM, to do it
  properly? (Seeing as it seems CBM isn't going to do it.)
    <-Harvey

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