Send the mail to the probably right alias, driver-discuss at opensolaris.org.
Regards, Strony Rashmi Balasubramanyam : > Hi.. I am currently doing a project on Virtual tape device for Open Solaris > along with a couple of my friends at Sun Microsystems. We are trying to > simulate the tape device systems which is used in companies to take data > backups. The idea is that we should be able to use hard drives/flash drives > and make them behave as a tape device. For this we are writing a pseudo tape > device driver and using the LDI (Layered Driver Interface) to communicate > with the hard disk/ flash disk. The media which we use is abstracted from the > pseudo device driver by the LDI interface. We are writing a header which > keeps track of the current read and write head and several other data. We > should make changes in the header after every read/write/ioctl operation. For > this we should perform 'seek' operations on the read/write head of the hard > disk to move from the data back up area and the header. Since this is in the > kernel level fseek functions will not be of any use. Can anyone kindly help > me by s! ugg > esting any solution to our problem? > Thank you in advance, > Rashmi > Campus Ambassador, > BMSCE, > Bangalore. >
