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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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