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- SCSI2_ToolBox - A set of SCSI tools for NeXTSTEP 3.x users and
- developers on Motorola and Intel hardware.
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- Software, Documentation and Source Code
- Copyright 1994, Christopher A. Wolf
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-
- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
-
- The SCSI2_ToolBox archive provides a powerful collection of SCSI tools for
- users, system administrators and developers on Motorola and Intel based
- NEXTSTEP 3.x systems.
-
- SCSI_Inspector.app is a GUI based program for examining and modifying low
- level parameters of SCSI devices. The application's Inspector window
- provides extensive technical and diagnostic information about all types of
- SCSI peripherals. The Inspector window can also be used to perform
- benchmarking on SCSI disks. The new Format panel can be used to easily
- low-level format SCSI disks. The panel provides complete control over
- device block size, interleave, defect list handling and media certification
- procedures. The new Cache Control panel allows the onboard read and write
- caches of SCSI-2 disk drives to be enabled or disabled. The application
- now includes complete context sensitive help.
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- SCSI_Inspector.app is built on top of an Objective-C class hierarchy which
- provides the NeXTSTEP programmer with powerful but simple control over
- SCSI-1 and SCSI-2 compliant devices. These classes hide the architecture
- dependent details of low-level SCSI access so that programs written using
- can work without modification on both Intel and Motorola architectures.
- The SCSI.m parent class is easily extended to provide device-specific
- functionality. The DriveSCSI.m sub-class currently provides extended
- functionality for disk type devices and serves as an example of how to
- properly extend the SCSI.m parent class. New sub-classes for tape and
- CD-rom devices are forthcoming. Complete source code and documentation for
- using these classes is provided.
-
- The programs and classes distributed in this archive are still under
- development and should be considered beta software. Please exercise
- appropriate caution when using them! Please direct any bug-reports,
- suggestions, comments or feature requests to: Christopher Wolf
- <chris@alchemy.geo.cornell.edu>. Thanks!
-
-
- LEGAL
- -----
-
- The software, documentation and source code provided as a part of
- SCSI2_ToolBox are Copyright 1994, Christopher A. Wolf. Some portions of
- the source code are directly derived from source code contributed by
- Andreas Ploeger and Jiro Nakamaru and used with their permission.
-
- The components of SCSI2_ToolBox are distributed under the GNU Public
- Licenses. SCSI_Inspector.app is distributed under the GNU General Public
- License. SCSI2_Class is distributed under the Library GNU Public License.
- Please refer to the complete text of the GNU Public Licences included in
- the appropriate folders in the SCSI2_ToolBox archive.
-
- This software and documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be
- useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
- Public License for more details.
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- WHERE TO FIND IT
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- The package has been uploaded to:
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- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/submissions/SCSI2_ToolBox.941207.NI.bs.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/submissions/SCSI2_ToolBox.941207.NI.bs.tar.gz
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- The package should be moved by the moderators to a permanent home in:
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- ftp://ftp.cs.orst.edu/software/NeXT/binaries/util/SCSI2_ToolBox.941207.NI.bs.tar.gz
- ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de/pub/comp/platforms/next/tools/scsi/SCSI2_ToolBox.941207.NI.bs.tar.gz
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- The older version of this package with the filename
- SCSI2_ToolBox.940921.NI.bs.tar.gz
- should be removed from all archive sites.
-
-
- Sincerely,
- Christopher Wolf
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-