More help needed with loadable drivers.

[Michael Thompson]

Hello everyone,

I have written my RAM driver/ disk emulator, but I am having problems loading
the device driver into the kernel.  After I use the masterupd(1) command
to create a character driver and block driver definition, I use the
following command:

# cp ram.o /etc/lddrv
# cd /etc/lddrv
# ./lddrv -av ram

allocated: 0x1000 bytes starting at 0x5c000 for device ram, B:1 C:-1 id:3
BIND failed: invalid argument 

There must be something I don't know about loadable drivers.  I can load,
un-load, bind and un-bind the dc73 (MS-DOS coprocessor loadable driver) using
the lddrv(1) and it seems to work fine.  Are there certain structures which
must be present in the object file of the driver which I am omitting?  The
notes on loadable drivers from AT&T don't really go into this kind of detail
except for the function entry points.  If someone can help me, I'll mail
off the source for driver, but I will not post it until I am very confident
that it works. 

I really hope to resolve the mount point issue soon so I can proceed with
work on the SCSI driver and adapter.

Mike Thompson
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