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... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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
