[5124] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Linux as a SCSI _Target_ device?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Smith)
Fri Nov 13 03:30:23 1998
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:37:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Tim Smith <tzs@tzs.net>
To: Jeff Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>
cc: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu,
linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <19981112173540.A16535@planetfall.com>
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> I may ultimately eat my words, but I'd like to try to do it.
...
> Gerard, I'm hoping you can hold my hand on this one. :-)
The one thing you have to keep firmly in mind is that the 53c{7,8}xx
chips are best viewed logically as consisting of two parts: a dumb
SCSI chip that would fit somewhere between the 5380 family and 5390
family, if it were on its own (leaning heavily toward the '90 side),
and a script processor that talks to that SCSI chip, and these parts
*run* *independently*. Keep that in mind, and so don't depend on
nothing interesting happening on the SCSI side while you've got the
script processor halted. The SCSI side can't do a lot on its own, but
it can do things like, e.g., respond to a selection or reselection, so
if you write a script that expects that nothing will be talking to the
you when you start the script, you can get a surprise.
-Tim Smith
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