On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 22:29 +0200, Sandy Drobic wrote:
i originally stated that I have no idea how easy or difficult writing a driver is - therefore, for all I know/knew, it's pretty simple, and I may have been mistaken by *assuming* it was beyond me.
Now, having said that, I also stated that I was pretty sure it was a ridiculous notion; I was just trying to confirm that.
Seems to me I've got things pretty straight - I just wanted to verify what I believed to be the case before acting on it.
And if the job was realistically 'doable', even if it wasn't trivial, I'd be happy to challenge myself and learn something new in the process. Obviously there are folks in the community that *DO* write drivers for unsupported hardware, so it's clearly possible. Most likely I myself haven't got the skills, admittedly.
Writing a driver is slow and frustrating work even if you do have solid programming knowledge ond additionally expert knowledge of the protocols involved. Writing a driver without having all the specs of the hardware is extremely difficult.
Also note that if the driver was that easy the hardware company probably would have one. Writing a driver would probably take you minimally 20 man hours. At even $15/hour that is as much as you could buy a nice 3ware or some other supported SATA controller and even have hardware raid. Just my 2 cents. Brad Dameron SeaTab Software www.seatab.com