----- Forwarded message from Nathan Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Nathan Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:31:58 -0700 (PDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LINUX DRIVERS -- Need a refrence list or person w/ skills ** This message was sent from the EUGLUG message board. Since ** ** the person who submitted this question may not be on the ** ** mailing list, please reply directly or on the message board: ** ** http://www.euglug.org/board.phtml?id=83 ** Hello I was givern your address by a friend at the CS department: I am looking for an individual (hopefully one of you) to help in writing unix/linux drivers... it could be as simple as a software driver, or possibly more like a block driver.... I was hoping you could direct me to some good resources (usenet groups, books, web material, etc.....) OR You or someone like youself would be willing to assist... here is a little info about what I am trying to do: the device is a large scale cd/dvd/video disk changer (there will be 2 models, 700 and 1500 disks) 1) I need the driver to be able to catalog cd contents to a file so on startup the system dose not have to read each disk. 2) Creat a virtual file system with subdirectories which contain the contents of each disk 3) And the system to communicate through the serial port to the changer, what disk is trying to be accessed, pause the system till its dropped in a drive, the drive is mounted, and then accessed by the system... I believe much if not all of this can be achieved through a software driver which uses standered sytem pause, interupt, and mount commands, but the virtual file system which pauses access and then links to a mounted disk is over my head.... Hoping you can help.... Nathan Elliottt ----- End forwarded message -----
