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From: jdow@gryphon.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000
Message-ID: <1585@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 14:41:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1585
Posted: Thu Sep 17 14:41:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 17:05:24 EDT
References: <2787@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <2324@cbmvax.UUCP> <154@bby-bc.UUCP> <1931@umd5.umd.edu>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Organization: Wizardess Designs
Lines: 52
Summary: Just might be one coming down the pike.

In article <1931@umd5.umd.edu> louie@trantor.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos) writes:
>In article <154@bby-bc.UUCP> john@bby-bc.UUCP (john) writes:
>
>>Is it a general scsi interface? e.g. if I plug an omti scsi->qic02 tape
>>controller into it will I be able to use my tape drive?  Is driver source
>>for the scsi port available?
>>
>
>I asked this question a few months ago.  I'm starting a software project to
>write a driver for our user group's SCSI controller.  It will actually be
>two drivers:  
>
>    "scsi.device" to talk to arbitrary SCSI controllers on the bus
>
>and
>
>    "scsidisk.device" which will emulate (of course) a trackdisk.device 
>interface and use scsi.device to talk the the disk controllers.
>
>Existing products that I know about (e.g. C Ltd) have one monolithic driver
>which has no (documented) hooks to issued commands to device on the SCSI bus.
>
>I hope that C-A has such an interface, and is willing to release the interface
>specifications so that other can emulate it.  Is there any tech documentation
>on the A2000 SCSI/ST-506 controller that describes the software interface?
>
>Do you really expect to back up your 30M disk to floppies?  Be real.  I wish
>I had a QIC02 SCSI controller and drive.  But if I did, I guess I'd be frantic
>trying to figure out a way to use it.  Then again, I wish my C Ltd drive would
>come back from C Ltd..  *Sigh*
>
>Louis A. Mamakos  WA3YMH    Internet: louie@TRANTOR.UMD.EDU
>University of Maryland, Computer Science Center - Systems Programming

Well, Louis, since I an doing some speedup work for Microbotics I have their
new stardrive source. It has a hook for generic SCSI commands. I have no idea
yet whether they willbe making them public, though. I will ask them to do so
and document it. I will cite your needs when talking to Redmond and crew.

<^_^>
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