From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: SCSI Card:Procom woes Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:49:11 GMT
In article <1992Aug31.044201.961@cs.uow.edu.au> u9050728@cs.uow.edu.au (Shane Kelvin Richards) writes:
>
> I own a scsi card a "Procom" (its 8bit). Now for this to run on my
>dos system it needs a dos driver, I am just looking at the manual and it
>says the driver is only needed to allow DOS to access more than 2 non-floppy
>disk drives and so that DOS can handle removable scsi-media.
> Is there any way at all Linux can be made to "see" the scsi card
>and thus my scsi HD. I have a 330meg scsi hard drive which I would love to
>be able to use with linux (at the moment I have had to partition off a
>40meg ide drive - so that linux only has about 20meg at the moment).
If you have the motivation, you could write a low level SCSI driver
for it. This would amount to 400-1000 lines of kernel code, and
if you can't get docs, reverse engineering the SCSI BIOS.
An easier solution would be to run a different SCSI controller,
although you may have to reformat the drive because of different
mapping conventions.
-- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments. Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.