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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!world!hd From: hd@world.std.com (HD Associates) Subject: Re: Searching for info on "sg" - generic SCSI device access Message-ID: <CL92AH.LME@world.std.com> Keywords: SCSI sg info Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <2iqgtj$3u9@hcshh.hcs.de> <CKq3nB.ExI@tfs.com> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 05:08:40 GMT Lines: 50 In article <CKq3nB.ExI@tfs.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@TFS.COM> wrote: >In article <2iqgtj$3u9@hcshh.hcs.de>, >Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@hcshh.hcs.de> wrote: >>Hi, >> >>has anyone information on howto access the generic SCSI device "sg" ? >>Perhaps a manual page or a code fragment ? >>Or a pointer to info ? > >the new code in FreeBSD-current has a sample program that utilises the >scsi generic interface ( see scsi(1) & scsi(4)) > >the sg interface was never really fully implimented in a released form, >though Peter Dufault had it working on his system. And I sent it to about five people... Is anyone else using it? > >for the new stuff in FreeBSD 1.1 when it comes out, it will be fully >supported (though there is more to do... peter?) I've never moved the SGI compatable libraries to the new scsi release (the one from around October), so the only thing I can send out right away is a set of patches to the previous SCSI release. I can send that immediately but it is based on the final patchkit to 386bsd before the move to FreeBSD. Let me know if you want that. I'm in the process of moving to FreeBSD-current specifically so I can get some minor SCSI bug fixes merged in (I think that is the active copy, right Julian?) and it will be available as a user library then. I notice that NetBSD-current and FreeBSD-current have different versions of the SCSI subsystem, so it may not help Hellmuth right away. Please e-mail me (hd@world.std.com) if you want a copy as soon as possible. I'm especially interested in locating someone with an SGI machine and the sample CD-player code using the SGI generic scsi interface willing to try to get it to work on a *BSD box. > >julian >> >>hellmuth Peter -- Peter Dufault Real Time Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936 hd@world.std.com Fax: 508 433 5267