Hello everybody!
DEC Alpha 600 5/266, DU3.2C,
DEC Alpha 3000/400, DU 3.2
RGBview 1050/2050
We've got a framegrabber device which connects to a DecStation 3100 under
VMS via the SCSI bus. The vendor of this box supplied us with VMS drivers
to write our own software, using simple function calls to the vendor's
library.
Now we are switching to DU on alphas an want to port our software, too.
The vendor says, that he is not interested in porting his library and the
drivers to DU (there are so few DEC Alphas out there...).
So, questions:
1) Where do we get documentation about how to write our own SCSI drivers
for this beastie? The box itself seems to be fairly simple: It is
waiting for an ASCII character on the SCSI bus and then acts accordingly.
The vendor said, he did a fast try to do it on DEC Alpha via the
documented rz drivers, but to no avail.
Problem seems to be, DEC only documented the rz and the tz drivers,
but not, how to write an own driver in general.
(I must admit, I'm not an experienced System Programmer yet...)
2) Alternatively, the Alpha 600 5/266 that we got, has PCI slots.
Does there exist a PC framegrabber card for the PCI bus which will work
in this alpha? Does there exist a driver for such a card working
on an DEC Alpha?
tia
Rainer Landes eMail: Rainer.Landes_at_Physik.uni-karlsruhe.de
Tel. (+49) 721 608 3578
http://fphvax.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/
Computer facilities of the Faculty of Physics, University of Karlsruhe, GER
Received on Mon Mar 11 1996 - 16:19:27 NZDT