[1560] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: ASPI ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Weller)
Fri Mar 14 09:18:55 1997
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 15:16:36 +0100 (MEZ)
From: Michael Weller <eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de>
To: David Hamm <dhamm@itserve.com>
Cc: Linux Scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970314084917.dhamm@itserve.com>
On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, David Hamm wrote:
> I have a plotter ( an RGI 5400 with a scsi interface ), that I'm concidering
> writing a driver for. In the developer's docs it describes how to do this
> using a dos machine with a ASPI driver loaded. Does Linux have ASPI support?
No. However, ASPI is merely a toolkit to send arbitrary SCSI commands to
arbitrary connected devices.
And yes, of course you can also do that under linux and probably much more
comfortable. There is a SCSI-Programming-HOWTO (somewhere under linux doku
on zillions of ftp servers) and also the sources of
scsiinfo and/or other tiny SCSI tools like load/unload or eject will
show you how to send SCSI commands to your plotter.
Michael.
(eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de or eowmob@pollux.exp-math.uni-essen.de
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