dsg@cci632.cci.com (David Greenberg) (06/05/91)
Hi all, I am still trying to get my Archive Tape drive working with my Amiga 2000. Every SCSI board vendor (I have a CLTD Kronos, but am looking for a board that will directly work with the ARCHIVE) tells me I need to write a driver for the archive. Now, I want to use BTN to access the drive, but I am assuming I still need a driver... The BTN handler uses SCSI direct protocol to access the Tape Drive, and my C.Ltd controller does support SCSI Direct, now what kind of driver do I need to write? Low Level routines to talk directly to the Drive? I am missing some part of the modularity here I know, but I am just confused!......The is a HardDisk.driver, and CLTD.device in the DEVS directory, and SCSI-Link.Library in my LIBS: directory. Shouldn't these drivers/libraries support SCSI direct (as the controller does?) Dave
ahw@egret0.stanford.edu (Arthur H. Walker) (06/05/91)
The C LTD software does NOT support SCSI DIRECT. They came up with their own generic_scsi idea, supported by the scsi-link.library; I don't know whether it works. To try any of this out you will have to rewrite BTN or other client to use the scsi-link calls rather than scsi_direct calls. If your distribution of scsi-link has a stub library and include files, you can probably generate a program. You will still be relying on the code in scsi-link.library; since almost no one used it, it wasn't very well field tested. art walker ahw@egret0.stanford.edu