tdwest@orchid.waterloo.edu (Terry D. West) (02/16/88)
I have a 2090 card and the SCSI port is currently unused. I am looking for the source for a driver which would use the SCSI card, as I don't really feel like reinventing the wheel. I have written SCSI drivers before, but I don't know the nitty gritties of how to talk to the 2090 card's registers and such. Along these lines, is there any REAL programmer's documentation on the 2090? It would be nice to know how to use it properly, as the driver I end up with will have to support arbitration and reselection, and be able to act as initiator or target. The destined application is the ability to use the amiga as a resource server to a smaller 68000 based project, as well as a simple network link between amigas. Anyone? (or is this going to be one of those never-replied-to nobody's-interested ones) Terry West 4B CS/EEE University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada watmath!orchid!tdwest
spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) (02/18/88)
Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* tdwest@orchid.waterloo.edu (Terry D. West) wrote: ...I have a 2090 card and the SCSI port is currently unused. I am looking ...for the source for a driver which would use the SCSI card, as I don't ... ...Along these lines, is there any REAL programmer's documentation on the 2090? ...It would be nice to know how to use it properly, as the driver I end up ...with will have to support arbitration and reselection, and be able to ...act as initiator or target. ...Terry West This is a good point. Commodore has given us all a SCSI standard to ralley around (like the Mac did, but not quite as forcefully), but there is no documentation. If I want to hook a streaming tape backup to it how do I do it? Commodore is not going to spend the time to do it, but some company in need of less return on investment or some individual in greater need of streaming tape backup might. But there is no document- ation. Look at all the products that attach to the Mac through it's SCSI port, all those could be used on the Amiga, but not unless we get the "in" we need on the 2090 board. How 'bout video tape back up? Also, the idea of SCSI disconnect and reconnect, and acting as initiator or target is something the guys at C-Ltd (are they still around ? :') have been working on. The most recent rev of their software allows you to call your Amiga by different unit numbers so they also have software available that does LAN stuff over the SCSI net. I have a part of that running on my machines (have 3 amigas and 1 hard disk). I am also waiting for DNET to support the mounting of remote file systems as well as this neat UnixWindows stuff it does now ( don't want to get into praising all the things DNET does... ). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne) (02/23/88)
> or target is something the guys at C-Ltd (are they still around ? :') > have been working on. The most recent rev of their software allows you > to call your Amiga by different unit numbers so they also have software > available that does LAN stuff over the SCSI net. I have a part of that > running on my machines (have 3 amigas and 1 hard disk). Well this is certainly interesting. I'd like to hear more about this! Does anybody know more about this? > Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 > spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 > ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -- Work: Computer Consoles Inc. (CCI), Advanced Development Group (ADG) Irvine, CA (RISCy business! Was an Amiga, now an AT, ACK! BARF!) UUCP: uunet!ccicpg!leo!harald