Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-07-02 Thread Malcolm Lear
I have the documented sources for the CST SCSI hard drive if anyone requires them. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Thierry Godefroy wrote: Derek, I am right now writing a device driver for CD-ROM drives on Q40/Q60 (I think I can announce it officially now as things build

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-07-02 Thread cgraf
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Malcolm Lear wrote: I have the documented sources for the CST SCSI hard drive if anyone requires them. Hi, is it possible to publish these sources? What about the rights of the author, do you know anything about this? If they're well documented, we might learn a lot.

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-07-02 Thread Dave Walker
and a rudimentary Toolkit set of extensions - so is he happy if we publish those sources (albeit it is a very old version). Dave - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 6:56 PM Subject: Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-27 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:42:26PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to suggest accessing unsupported filesystems by reading the device as a stream, but seem to recall trying something similar in the past and finding that because the partition it represents is a fixed size (and

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-27 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Q Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Richard Zidlicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files inside are

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-27 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Richard Zidlicky wrote: Afaic all publicly known specs about QXL filesystems are scattered through UQLX, qxltool and qxl_fschk sources. I think Gerhard Plavec has also put some information on his Austrian QL site, address available on my 'ql links' page on my website -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:01:02AM +0100, Q Branch wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Derek, I am right now writing a device driver for CD-ROM drives on Q40/Q60 (I think I can announce it officially now as things build up nicely and I will

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 12:08 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:01:02AM +0100, Q Branch wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Derek, I am right now writing a device driver for CD-ROM drives on Q40/Q60 (I think I can announce it officially

RE: Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Ian . Pine
Message- From: tncj Sent: 27 June 2001 14:16 To: ql-users Cc: tncj Subject: Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB) At 12:08 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 01:01:02AM +0100, Q Branch wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry

RE: Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 01:24 ìì 26/6/2001 +0100, you wrote: Hehe... only problem... if we have our own filing system how are we going to record it? Phoebus Ah well, there's the clever bit. If your CD writing software enables it you can prepare your raw CD image in a binary file and then copy it

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Peter Graf
Richard wrote: there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS. Time to set out own standards :) Seconded :-) A raw SMSQ

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 04:52 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote: Richard wrote: there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS. Time to set out

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Richard Zidlicky
At 04:52 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote: Richard wrote: there is no need to add the bloat of ISO9660 just to read a single QXL.WIN Putting the QXL.WIN image directly on the CD is much cleaner and files inside are still trivially accessible using qxltool on any reasonable OS. Time

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 06:12 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote: sure they are fully accessible. To burn the CD you need just to copy the raw partition to the CD writer. Bye Richard Okay, then it will not be as elegant as using an actual program to select files but like a temp partition on the SMSQ/E side of

RE: Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-26 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 06:08 ìì 26/6/2001 +0200, you wrote: Why would they want to transfer the whole image if they can get single files out of it? t. Ohh I meant from QL to CD not the other way round since we will be accessing it fully anyways this is trivial on the Q40: suppose you have

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-25 Thread Richard Zidlicky
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:26:01PM +0100, Derek Stewart wrote: Hi there, Well OK, the long struggle is over, I will look at the Atapi tape streamer ??? never seen one of those yet. They have always been Floppy or SCSI. I have installed a Quantum DLT 8000 at work, but that is SCSI 3 and

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-25 Thread Q Branch
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Derek, I am right now writing a device driver for CD-ROM drives on Q40/Q60 (I think I can announce it officially now as things build up nicely and I will probably able to release something useful before I leave for

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-25 Thread Phoebus Dokos
At 01:01 ðì 26/6/2001 +0100, you wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thierry Godefroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Derek, I am right now writing a device driver for CD-ROM drives on Q40/Q60 (I think I can announce it officially now as things build up nicely and I will probably able to release

Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-24 Thread Thierry Godefroy
On Dimanche 24 Juin 2001 10:41, Derek Stewart wrote: Hi Ian, Apparently, this message was not for the ql-users list, but it is indeed a Good Thing (tm) that you sent it there ! Although I would like a tape streamer, but I am having trouble writting the device driver for the floppy disk based

Re: Q40/Q60 device drivers (was: Re: [ql-users] Derek Stewart BB)

2001-06-24 Thread Timothy Swenson
At 11:26 PM 6/24/2001 +0100, you wrote: I have installed a Quantum DLT 8000 at work, but that is SCSI 3 and 3500 quids in money. Since there is no SCSI interface that will work with the Q40 then it would have to be IDE. At SGI I was the backline support expert in SCSI tape drives. SCSI is