Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:47:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: bob@obiwan.pmr.com, phk@ref.tfs.com, ache@astral.msk.su, julian@tfs.com, CVS-commiters@freefall.cdrom.com, cvs-sys@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi scsi_base.c Message-ID: <199504122147.RAA04813@hda.com> In-Reply-To: <199504121708.KAA06997@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Apr 12, 95 10:08:48 am
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Rodney W. Grimes writes: > > Peter, have you ever used Roy Ness's SCSICNTL.EXE utility that allows > you to muck with all the scsi control pages? If you write a utility > like this that runs under FreeBSD I personally would be willing to > pay for some of your time. As it stands now I have to boot DOS to > do the drive tweaking I do on all the systems I ship and thus a similiar > tool running under FreeBSD would save me that hassle. I haven't looked at Roy's utility. I'm downloading it now. If you look at how scsi(8) is setup you'll see it is set up to be "scsicap" driven and it wouldn't be two hard to put together a utility, even a fancy one. I'm always ready to do pretty much anything related to FreeBSD for money. I spend a lot of time trying to locate work where I can do that, and I'm lucky enough to be doing it right now. However, if you have the SCSI spec (and I think you do) you may be able to get scsi(8) to do what you need. > I know that you won't be able to have all the drive information for > drive specific control pages that Roy has put in SCSICNTL.EXE, but > even being able to dittle the standard control pages that deal with > read allocation/write allocation and disconnect thresholds would > be a big boon. Also the ability to do a drive verify and format > operation would be nice. > > I will call Roy and see if perhaps I can get him to release the non- > Adaptec specific portions of his source code under some form of NDA, > if you are interested in this. It would be great if you could get those drive specific control pages from him and not under NDA, though I suspect they sign NDA to get them. Otherwise, having that code and producing a BSD copyright utility could be more trouble than it is worth. -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 dufault@hda.com Fax: 508 433 5267
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