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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:14:06 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        chris@aims.com.au
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, ken@kdm.org
Subject:   Re: Porting a SCSI driver from 2.2.x to 3.x 
Message-ID:  <199910270714.AAA01114@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:14:18 %2B1100." <000801bf204a$e2bd78c0$0200a8c0@nts-ts1.aims.private> 

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> Howdy,
> 	Thanks for the info. I'm looking at converting the DPT SmartRAID V driver
> that Mark Salyzyn made available for FreeBSD 2.2.x. Mark informed me that
> the conversion was on his list of things to do, but wouldn't be happening in
> the short term.
> 	Any gotchas that I should be aware of before allocating large amounts of
> time to this?

Yeah; Simon Shapiro is working on doing it properly.  

The DPT V is an I2O card.  Having it pretend to be a SCSI device is 
just about the most difficult way that you could think of to support 
it.  Except maybe if you tried to pretend it was an ISA joystick.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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