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Re: Installing Optiarc drive

From Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject Re: Installing Optiarc drive
Date 2012-06-28 21:57 -0700
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Message-ID <4FED35C1.4080707@thadlabs.com> (permalink)
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On 6/28/2012 2:15 PM, J G Miller wrote:
>> [...]
>> Isn't it true that Debian Etch should be expected to come with a driver
>> to support an older standard DVD drive?
> 
> No -- "drivers" are a Windoze thing.

Oh?  Then why are there books such as the following (for just one
simple example):

"Linux Device Drivers", 3rd Edition:

http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/

tarball of the PDF files:

http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ldd3_pdf.tar.bz2

individual PDFs:

http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/TITLE.pdf        Title page
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/COPYRIGHT.pdf    Copyright and credits
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ldr3TOC.fm.pdf   Table of Contents
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch00.pdf         Preface
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch01.pdf         Chapter 1: An Introduction to Device Drivers
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch02.pdf         Chapter 2: Building and Running Modules
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch03.pdf         Chapter 3: Char Drivers
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch04.pdf         Chapter 4: Debugging Techniques
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch05.pdf         Chapter 5: Concurrency and Race Conditions
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch06.pdf         Chapter 6: Advanced Char Driver Operations
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch07.pdf         Chapter 7: Time, Delays, and Deferred Work
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch08.pdf         Chapter 8: Allocating Memory
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch09.pdf         Chapter 9: Communicating with Hardware
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch10.pdf         Chapter 10: Interrupt Handling
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch11.pdf         Chapter 11: Data Types in the Kernel
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch12.pdf         Chapter 12: PCI Drivers
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch13.pdf         Chapter 13: USB Drivers
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch14.pdf         Chapter 14: The Linux Device Model
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch15.pdf         Chapter 15: Memory Mapping and DMA
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch16.pdf         Chapter 16: Block Drivers
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch17.pdf         Chapter 17: Network Drivers
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ch18.pdf         Chapter 18: TTY Drivers
http://lwn.net/images/pdf/LDD3/ldr3IX.fm.pdf    Index

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Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-06-28 16:37 -0400
  Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-28 21:15 +0000
    Re: Installing Optiarc drive Thad Floryan <thad@thadlabs.com> - 2012-06-28 21:57 -0700
      Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-29 08:57 +0000
        Re: Installing Optiarc drive Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2012-06-29 10:39 +0100
          Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-29 10:06 +0000
          Re: Installing Optiarc drive Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-06-30 20:41 -0600
        Re: Installing Optiarc drive Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-06-29 11:24 +0100
          Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-29 12:01 +0000
    Re: Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-06-29 06:26 -0400
      Re: Installing Optiarc drive Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-06-30 20:53 -0600
        Re: Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-07-01 17:57 -0400
    Re: Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-06-29 07:37 -0400
      Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-06-29 12:40 +0000
        Re: Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-07-01 18:04 -0400
          Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-07-01 22:57 +0000
      Re: Installing Optiarc drive "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2012-06-29 17:16 -0400
        Re: Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-07-01 18:57 -0400
          Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-07-02 09:32 +0000
            Re: Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-07-02 10:44 -0400
              Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-07-02 15:44 +0000
                Re: Installing Optiarc drive Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-07-04 12:38 -0400
                Re: Installing Optiarc drive J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-07-04 16:52 +0000
      Re: Installing Optiarc drive Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-06-30 20:59 -0600
  Re: Installing Optiarc drive Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2012-06-30 20:49 -0600

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