On 6/24/06, Frank Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Let's assume your Block Device is an ATA Hard Disk and you're using FreeBSD 6.0 like me. Take a look at <sys/ata.h> and you'll see a large fully-commented structure, "struct ata_params", which is used to return the information from the ATA "IDENTIFY DEVICE" command using something like: "ioctl(DevFil,IOCATAGPARM,&Parms);" This probably tells you everything you need. Plus IOCATAGPARM also returns CD/DVD Drive information using the related IDENTIFY PACKET DEVICE command. For further details consult the T13 Website. For ATA/ATAPI you might start with: "T13 1153D Revision 18" "Information Technology - AT Attachment with Packet Interface Extension (ATA/ATAPI-4)". Though there are later versions: "T13 1321D" (ATA/ATAPI-5) and "T13 1410D" (ATA/ATAPI-6). Whatever device you have there's probably some Hardware Command which gives you all the technical details. Faictz Ce Que Vouldras: Frank Mitchell Hello,
Thanks to all who have offered suggestions about how to tackle this problem. I have a number of different possiblities to consider here, and need to do some reading at this point to see which option would be best suited to this particular problem. Thanks very much for your advice! -Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
