SCSI devices
Keith Gabryelski
ag at amix.commodore.com
Fri May 17 16:22:40 AEST 1991
In article <1991May15.160756.24825 at digibd.com> rhealey at 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
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Keith Gabryelski Advanced Products Group
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