libscg is not installed by default on some systems... like OI.
On Solaris derived platforms (at least apart from SchilliX), the
approved way to do this is through uscsi.
- Garrett
On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 11:06 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Cyril Plisko <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Jason King <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > You'd probably need to write a C program that opens the device
> > > (assuming one is created on the system) and use the uscsi interface to
> > > issue the commands as ioctls.
> >
> >
> > Or use sg_senddiag from sg3_utils package.
>
> Isn't this Linux only?
>
> The OS independent way of sending SCSI commands to arbitrary targets (since
> August 1986) is libscg. It is e.g. part of cdrtools.
>
> BTW: There is also sformat(1), see:
>
> ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
>
> that includes a lot of SCSI handling interfaces for disks. sformat was the
> first command that allows to format disks while SunOS was still running (Sun
> forced their customers to boot into a stand alone format utility at that
> time)
> and sformat was the example for the format utility that has been later
> written
> by Sun.
>
> Jörg
>
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