[ros-dev] SCSI support?

[Bernd Blaauw]

Hartmut Birr schreef:

>Hi,    
>
>currently it is not possible to add a scsi driver while installing ros. It
>is possible to install ros on a scsi disk with a modified install cd. Ros
>can use the NT 4.0 drivers from a scsi controller. You must do the following
>steps:    
>  
>
Hello,

I guess you mean the "Press F6 for SCSI/RAID driver disks" message 
Windows gives?
What I was asking is: is the infrastructure there for installing on 
SCSI? From your message I can conclude:
YES, IF the driver is integrated into the ReactOS disk.

The VMware driver I pointed to is opensource (GPL), so you could add it 
to ReactOS as a basic driver,
so you can demonstrate that ReactOS can install on SCSI harddisk. And it 
makes testing and/or using ReactOS in VMware a lot easier.
The trick question: is it harmful if this driver gets loaded but there's 
no hardware for it present?
Does the driver auto-fail without causing any BSOD/hangups, and will 
ReactOS continue?

thanks for the reply, though I think out-of-the-box support for several 
emulators and their hardware is important to demonstrate ReactOS to a 
larger public
("hey, this operating system you're showing to me has networking and 
1024x768-32bit advanced video driver support! wow, I'm impressed!")

I didn't know drivers were at NT4 level, thought ReactOS required 
2000/XP drivers.
good luck with the project.

Bernd