Re: Is there SCSI ioctl() support in cygwin? Where is sg.h?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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

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