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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 00:06:09 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: problems with camcontrol rescan
Message-ID:  <20010831000609.B52843@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <01083107355500.28548@mako.pmp.uni-hannover.de>; from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:31:20AM %2B0200
References:  <0108241008070E.15703@mako.pmp.uni-hannover.de> <01083007533800.27477@mako.pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20010830103125.A47197@panzer.kdm.org> <01083107355500.28548@mako.pmp.uni-hannover.de>

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On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 07:31:20 +0200, Gerrit Kuehn wrote:
> Am Thu, 30 Aug 2001 schrieb Kenneth D. Merry
> 
> > > Would be kind of a mission for me: I don't speak C and didn't do any
> > > programming related with drivers so far...
> 
> > Ahh.
> 
> Would be a good point and reason to learn something new... :-)

It would be a good learning experience.  You'd get to learn C, SCSI, and
FreeBSD kernel programming all in one shot. :)

> > It's probably worth a try to contact them.  Unfortunately the Tekram S1040
> > driver has never been integrated into FreeBSD, primarily due to the lack of
> > someone with the hardware, time, ability and motivation to thoroughly check
> > out the driver, clean it up, etc.
> 
> I see. Well, I looked around a little bit and found the email-adress of the
> author in the header of the source. Perhaps I'm better off contacting him
> directly than trying to reach the so-called tech support team.
> I also found out that ftp.tekram.com and ftp.tekram.tw.com carry different
> drivers. I downloaded one that is slightly newer than the one I've been using.
> I'll give that one a try over the weekend.

Sounds like a good plan, hopefully the author or the newer driver will do
the trick. :)

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org

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