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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Source code to manipulate SCSI command descriptor block
Message-ID: <19225@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 06:58:42 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.174708@kboeng.enet.dec.com> <1991Feb12.150751.29404@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Feb12.150751.29404@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at> mah@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at writes:
>I found this idea much more useful than having a bunch of special ioctl's 
>for formatting, reading capacity and the like. I hope more manufacturers
>adopt this idea; it makes it very easy to write userland programs to talk
>to weird devices or cause special functions in a device the original 
>author of the driver did'nt think of. 

	Modern Amiga (Commodore & 3rd-party) controllers have something 
like this (the "scsidirect" standard).  Allow more-or-less arbitrary
commands to be sent.  Definitely the way to go.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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The compiler runs
Like a swift-flowing river
I wait in silence.  (From "The Zen of Programming")  ;-)