[ILUG] SCSI Programming

[Paul Jakma]

On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Ching Haydee wrote:

  hi everyone,
    i would just like to ask have anyone tried SCSI programming? Like how do 
  you send SCSI Inquiry command to a SCSI device? Please tell me if someone 
  can share with me how it is done in a Solaris 7 platform.
  
    any idea will be greatly appreciated.
  
    thanks a lot.
  -haydee : )

don't know about solaris but Linux has the SCSI-generic interface.
This allows you to send arbitrary scsi command blocks to a device.
But it's allegedly not very good, esp wrt to error handling. 

have a look at http://www.torque.net/sg/ which is the SCSI-generic
homepage and has a few sample programmes to look at. 

See also ftp://globalfilesystem.org/pub/GFS/tools/ -> fwd, a utility
to upgrade the firmware on Seagate disks. The interesting bit about
this programme is that it has both a linux-sg backend and a Solaris
backend, which might help.

regards,
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