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Re: Just a couple of things.

To: mint-request@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (Stephen Usher)
Subject: Re: Just a couple of things.
From: Julian Reschke <reschke@GOEDEL.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 94 12:38:09 MET DST
Cc: mint@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu (MiNT-Liste)
In-reply-to: <2040.9404270901@elvis.earth.ox.ac.uk>; from "Stephen Usher" at Apr 27, 94 10:01 am
Organization: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany Department of Mathematics
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> I think the important thing, however, is to integrate SCSI/ACSI into a
> MiNT-level driver rather than one below it so that it can fully integrate
> with MiNT so that the whole machine doesn't just hang every time you do a
> disk access, as the current ACSI/SCSI drivers tend to do.

In order to do that, youl'll have to make MiNT reentrant. Mag!x 3.0 will
be reentrant, and there are in fact already beta implementations of
interrupt driven HD drivers.

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- Re: Just a couple of things.
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