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From: fc159145@seas.gwu.edu (William Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Help needed for writing SCSI software
Message-ID: <2380@sparko.gwu.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 90 01:18:17 GMT
Reply-To: fc159145@seas.gwu.edu (William Lai)
Organization: The George Washington University, Washington D.C.
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I am in the process of writing software to control a SCSI-2 based DAT drive,
on a MS-DOS machine.  The device driver I am using is the Adaptec ASPI (Advance
SCSI Preogramming Interface, DOS Specification).  ASPI allows me to send 
Command Descriptor Blocks (CDB) to the host adapter, get sense (?) information
back, etc.

The problem I'm having are mostly due to my inexperience with SCSI.  I've been
reading the SCSI-2 Standard Document, but it offers mostly reference matierial,
with no examples on how to set up the CDB, etc.

I am wondering if there is any books on the how's of interacting with SCSI 
devices.  Examples will be greatly appreciated.

Also I am wondering if there is an electronic version of the SCSI Std. Doc 
ftp'able on the Internet.

Thanks in Advance.

William Lai