From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Oct 27 0:22:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles520.castles.com [208.214.165.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D2F714F66 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:22:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01114; Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:14:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199910270714.AAA01114@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Oct 1999 18:14:18 +1100." <000801bf204a$e2bd78c0$0200a8c0@nts-ts1.aims.private> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 00:14:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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