Re: Docs on the cryptic SCSI mid layer

tad-m2n@omoikane.co.jp
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:27:36 +0900


Hi!

Terry Hardie wrote:
> Generic is probabbly the easiest one to read, it's gonna take me a while
> to figure out what parts of the structures and what functions I need to
> call to make the underlying SCSI interface do my commands.

I wrote a guide of Linux SCSI layers, but very sorry for only available in japanese.
But a figure in the document might help you to understand the layer structure of SCSI.

Anyway, URL is
http://www.omoikane.co.jp/~tad/scsi/scsi-e.ps.gz

In addtion, AFAIK, old kernel hacker's guide also explaind about Linux SCSI layer.

> I'm trying to write a kernel driver to talk to a SCSI device. I've taken a

I do not know well what you intend, but the new sg driver's document below would
also usefull for you, I think.

http://www.torque.net/sg/

Cheers.

--
Tadayoshi Ohkuma / tad@omoikane.co.jp
Omoikane Ltd. / http://www.omoikane.co.jp

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