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Re: Is there SCSI ioctl() support in cygwin? Where is sg.h?
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 18:03:19 +0200
- Subject: Re: Is there SCSI ioctl() support in cygwin? Where is sg.h?
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On Jun 27 11:55, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> On 6/27/2013 4:33 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Jun 26 15:04, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 05:30:51PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>On Jun 26 08:31, Peter Allen wrote:
> >>>>I've searched the archives and the net and haven't found any
> >>>>information about using ioctl() to send commands to a SCSI disk.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm porting an application that needs structures defined in sg.h,
> >>>>(sg_io_hdr_t) but can't find that header in any cygwin package.
> >>>>
> >>>>Is there support for this in cygwin?
> >>>
> >>>No, sorry, there isn't. While Windows offers SCSI passthrough
> >>>capability using some DeviceIoControl control code, we don't support the
> >>>/dev/sg* devices and the translation from sg to underlying Windows
> >>>device.
> >>>
> >>>I played with the SCSI passthrough stuff a couple years ago. I'd say,
> >>>the real problem is not to support passthrough, but the device
> >>>translation. There's pretty certainly a way to offer that, but off the
> >>>top of my head I don't know how to.
> >>>
> >>>Adding a Cygwin fhandler for sg devices and SCSI passthrough would
> >>>probably be a nice side project for somebody who's interested in this
> >>>stuff. It wouldn't really collide with anything which is already
> >>>implemented.
> >>
> >>So when, exactly, do you expect to have this implemented then? Next
> >>Thursday?
> >
> >Let's say, it will be *a* Thursday, just don't expect me to say the
> >exact year...
>
> This isn't another issue involving kittens, is it?
You know how kittens have no sense of time.
Corinna
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