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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:59:19 +0200
From: Moritz Kiese <mbk@mytum.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Writing device drivers
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On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Nigel Roles wrote:

> erik quanstrom wrote:

[snip]

>> i don't know a think about scsi bus protocol and i don't have a bus
>> analyzer.
>> is such a beast affordable?  (i am running old va linux boxen after all.)
>>
>>
> I very much doubt it it would be affordable. Think several 1000 $.

Nah. Ebay spills them out once in a while, e.g.
 	http://cgi.ebay.com/Verisys-SV8160-SCSI-Bus-Analyzer_W0QQitemZ7609713441QQcategoryZ97186QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

But then I have never used this particular beast so I can't comment on
usefulness /quality of the related analyser SW...

++mbk