As far as I know, asc.c is the mac68k's "Apple Sound Chip" driver, the
only thing it can do is give out a rather poor imitation of a "feep"
whenever something tries to send a \007 character to the console!

On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, The Great Mr. Kurtz [David A. Gatwood] wrote:

> 
> MkLinux's external SCSI driver seems to have problems handling things such
> as drives not ready (e.g. attempting to access a removable while it's
> spinning up.  I've had a look at the sources, and it says they're from
> NetBSD, some driver called asc.c.
> 
> /*      $NetBSD: asc.c,v 1.18 1996/03/18 01:39:47 jonathan Exp $        */
> 
> I have several questions:
> 1.  What NetBSD platform did that come from?
> 2.  Is that a predecessor to the esp driver?
> 3.  What's the current status of the esp driver?  Will it handle such
> things as not causing a kernel panic when accessing a drive that's not
> ready?  Since esp's supposedly so M.I., what's the chance of easily
> porting it into MkLinux (given that its current driver is a NetBSD driver
> of some ilk)?
> 4.  What's the probability that it will help?  IOW, what's the probability
> that the problems are not in Mach's M.I. SCSI code?
> 
> If anybody's online this evening who knows anything about it, I'd love to
> hear about it, because I'm considering suggesting that someone try porting
> the esp driver on the MkLinux development list, if it's more stable than
> the driver MkLinux already has.  (I won't be home this week, so I'd like
> to send it out tonight, before I forget. :) 
> 
> 
> TIA,
> David
> 
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