Re: [address@hidden: Interface for SCSI transactions ?]

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:57:21PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:

> An interested user who really wants to burn CD, DVD, or BD, would be
> an extra motivation. :))

Well, if I can find some working DVD drive for my Linux box, I could
transfer the burner to the Hurd box :-)

However, I hardly do any burning nowadays; so I'm not sure I would be a
good tester...

> Meanwhile this accident evolved and i have a test machine with
> FreeBSD, Solaris, and Debian 5. It has a single disk where i could use
> partition 2 with 50 GB for a real Hurd. But from lurking here i got
> the impression that you all use it on virtual machines, rather than on
> real amd64 + SATA + USB + Ethernet.

Well, I for one use a real machine. However, it's an old Pentium3 box
with PATA. Modern machines are problematic...

> I understand from the comments in scsi_ioctl.c that this is a
> predecessor of the Linux SG_IO interface (Linux kernel >= 2.4).

Well, yes... The drivers are from Linux 2.0 -- not sure whether the
functionality they offer is suitable for modern use...

> I still have to explore how to beef up the userland side of
> device_get_status().

Not sure what you mean by that. There is nothing you need to change
about device_get_status() on the userspace side -- just invoke it with
the right parameters...

-antrik-