rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) (05/15/91)
Has anybody attempted to put a SCSI tape device like an exebyte(tm) or DAT on Amix? Did it work? Did it fail? Did sparks fly out of the boxes? How about CDROM's and maybe R/W optical a la NeXT? Is the SCSI driver flexible enough to take arbitrary disks, tapes and misc. SCSI toys? How about a fancy, front end config/format utility for disks and tapes to make it easy for people to add generic SCSI devices? Well, maybe that's too extreme... Maybe some good technical docs on the SCSI driver and the ioctl's I could tickle it with? The maybe some docs on these other mysterious devices in /dev like noise, cage, amiga, tiga? etc. /dev/cage huh, is this where the mouse is kept till X or some other app needs it? B^). As a tangent, can I kill off menud safely? It appears that all it does is print out a warning message to a VT when you log out so neophytes know what is going on. I'd like to get rid of it so I have blank VT's I can switch to that will "fake" a screenblanker... -Rob -- Rob Healey rhealey@digibd.com Digi International (DigiBoard) Eden Prairie, MN (612) 943-9020
doug@timelord.uucp (Doug Whitehead x4149) (05/16/91)
Just my 2 cents... I think the CD-ROM drive would be a great way to distribute Commodore Unix (Comix?). All those man pages and infrequently used pd utilities can stay out on the CD-ROM drive, where they are slow but accessable. The critical stuff should be copied onto your Hard disk for speed. Such an arrangement might make Unix reasonable on a 100Meg HD. It would also make unix updates cheap for Commodore. to make this work you would probably need some sort of convienent administration program; that would allow you to specify which directories are not to be on HD. One disadvantage of the CD-ROM: folks would not be able to backup their work (as you can with a tape drive). doug doug@ctc.contel.com
robbar@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Baruch robert) (05/16/91)
In article <1991May15.160756.24825@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes: > > Has anybody attempted to put a SCSI tape device like an exebyte(tm) > or DAT on Amix? Did it work? Did it fail? Did sparks fly out > of the boxes? I've added a WangTec 150MB SCSI drive no problems what so ever. The only dilema I'm facing is where to find an external drive casing to house 2 full-height drives. Any suggestions?
ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) (05/17/91)
In article <1991May15.160756.24825@digibd.com> rhealey@digibd.com (Rob Healey) writes: > Has anybody attempted to put a SCSI tape device like an exebyte(tm) > or DAT on Amix? Did it work? Did it fail? Did sparks fly out > of the boxes? I as I recall the Exebyte has been tested and works on Amiga Unix. I am not sure about DAT. > How about a fancy, front end config/format utility for disks > and tapes to make it easy for people to add generic SCSI > devices? Well, maybe that's too extreme... Maybe some good > technical docs on the SCSI driver and the ioctl's I could tickle > it with? > The maybe some docs on these other mysterious devices > in /dev like noise, cage, amiga, tiga? etc. /dev/cage huh, is this > where the mouse is kept till X or some other app needs it? B^). /dev/noise, if openned, will cause the kernel to redirect kernel printfs to it instead of /dev/console. /dev/cage used by the floppy driver for interrupts. You can mmap /dev/amiga to get at the amiga's custom chips. /dev/tiga? is used for the U of Lowell tiga board. /dev/scsi can be used to access the scsi bus. > As a tangent, can I kill off menud safely? It appears that all it does > is print out a warning message to a VT when you log out so neophytes > know what is going on. I'd like to get rid of it so I have blank > VT's I can switch to that will "fake" a screenblanker... Do it. A much more acceptable menud will be release in 2.0. Maybe a screen blanker will appear. also. Pax, Keith -- Keith Gabryelski Advanced Products Group ag@amix.commodore.com ...!cbmvax!amix!ag
ag@amix.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) (05/17/91)
In article <1991May16.134338.5725@europa.asd.contel.com> doug@timelord.UUCP (Doug Whitehead) writes: >Just my 2 cents... I think the CD-ROM drive would be >a great way to distribute Commodore Unix (Comix?). Amiga Unix. Sometimes Amix or just Unix but never anything resembling `Comix'. :-) >All those man pages and infrequently used pd utilities >can stay out on the CD-ROM drive, where they are slow >but accessable. The critical stuff should be copied >onto your Hard disk for speed. Such an arrangement >might make Unix reasonable on a 100Meg HD. It would >also make unix updates cheap for Commodore. 2.0 has a package routine that breaks Unix up into bite size pieces. The core distributions is somewhere around 30 meg. Aren't CD-ROMS somewhere around the price of a cartridge tape? QIC-60 is also the ABI choice. CD-ROMS are useful, though, and we will probably support them in a future release. Pax, Keith -- Keith Gabryelski Advanced Products Group ag@amix.commodore.com ...!cbmvax!amix!ag
amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Paul) (05/18/91)
CD-ROMs cost about 10,000 for the master and about .19 cents for each copy. -- ACK!!!! -Bill the Cat Amiga@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu .....Paul......