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From: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Request for hard disk driver info
Message-ID: <1328@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 15:08:10 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1328
Posted: Mon Feb  2 15:08:10 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Feb-87 03:46:12 EST
References: <767@vaxb.calgary.UUCP>
Reply-To: carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 22
Keywords: hard disk driver

In article <767@vaxb.calgary.UUCP> candym@calgary.UUCP (Mike Candy) writes:
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>
>I now need to write (or obtain) a driver. After reading the appropriate
>sections of the RKM, I still don't know how to go about this. I'm
>currently running under 1.2, and can create the appropriate entry in
>DEVS:Mountlist, with DEVICE = L:harddisk.device. The questions are what
>parameters does it get passed and what in skeleton form does it need to do?
...

   You need a harddisk.device driver for your harddisk, not a handler.
I think most harddisks use the same handler as the trackdisks.
Check out Lee Erickson's sample device driver on Fish Disk 39.
It can be used as the starting point for a harddisk.device.

carolyn
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