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? cgf (I'm here all week folks. Tip your busboys) -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
