24 Jul
2010
24 Jul
'10
9:51 p.m.
On 7/24/10 9:32 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
How would it? Those are addresses on the bus. All the drivers in
the world won't make it appear on the bus. Unless, of course, a driver
has some way of seeing and trapping I/O instructions, redirecting them
into their own piece of code, and faking their return.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
I have no idea
on technical grounds, but inasmuch as there are, or
were, USB<=>SCSI adaptors, I think it's /technically/ possible in
terms of electronic capabilities. What I suspect on no particular
evidence is that software-wise it probably isn't, 'cos I am /guessing/
that a USB device can't present itself as a port on 0x378 on IRQ 7
etc.
Well, wasn't it actually 0x3bc on the original PC? And I don't see why a
USB device couldn't do that, given the proper drivers.