Re: [Ipoverscsi-developer] Adaptec

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On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 09:11:57AM +0000, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> OK I was hoping I might only have implement one more command ;) 

You can test the system with only INQUIRY and WRITE10 done. 

> I would appreciate that, I had a bit of a look on the net but the only
> copy of it I could find was a zip file which won't unzip for me.

I don't have the standart in this computer. Tomorow i will fetch it from
another computer. But i must go there to get it... :((

> So if I'm right I should probably firstly implement the IDENTIFY
INQUIRY (the two are diferent). Inquiry is to see what kind of
controller is there in the other side. IDENTIFY is to select a lun
inside a device

> command, followed by the WRITE10 command and then the COMMAND COMPLETE
> WDTR and SDTR commands

Yep...

> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
> > In our case, the SYM53C8XX has a integrated processor. We can program it
> > using a special language called SCRIPTS. What we made was to change the
> > flow of the program so that it would make a WAIT SELECT. This command
> > waits for a controler to select our target. Then we decoded the command
> > and made a hardware interrupt so that to read the information. As I
> > said, the best way is to do INQUIRY and then make WRITE10. I will check
> > the code to see if I can help anymore.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly how much time I'll have to work on this for the
> next couple of weeks.
> But I'll start looking at code and trying to come up with ways to
> implement this stuff.

We took a long time before starting writing SCRIPTS... SCSI is a real
Bit*h when you got something wrong. The least that can happen is the
controler stoping to work, and worst is the two computer begin to reset
each other... :(((

Pedro Semeano