| From: | Jack York |
| Date: | 13 Aug 99 at 15:20:27 |
| Subject: | Re: Accessing Broken SCSI |
From: Jack York <jyork@voyager.net>
Hello Nicholas
On 11-Aug-99, Nicholas Clarke wrote:
> From: Nicholas Clarke <nclarke@diku.dk>
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Jack York wrote:
>
>> I am trying to recover some data from a scsi drive on which the RDB
>> is lost. I have never tried doing anything with the SCSI device
>> so I may be way off here, but my thought was to take the sample
>> code below (from the RKM Scsi_direct example) and change it to a
>> a SCSIF_READ command. Then search through the read data for what I am
>> looking for. But I don't see how to set the starting cylinder, length,
>> and data buffer. Is this possible or is there a better (easier) way?
>> The filesystem is PFS2 BTW, if it matters.
>>
>> SCSIReq.io_Length = sizeof(struct SCSICmd);
>> SCSIReq.io_Data = (APTR)&Cmd;
>> SCSIReq.io_Command = HD_SCSICMD;
>>
>> Cmd.scsi_Data = (UWORD *)buffer; *
>> Cmd.scsi_Length = 254;
>> Cmd.scsi_CmdLength = 6;
>> Cmd.scsi_Flags = SCSIF_AUTOSENSE|SCSIF_READ;
>>
>> Cmd.scsi_SenseData =(UBYTE *)Sense; *
>> Cmd.scsi_SenseLength = 18;
>> Cmd.scsi_SenseActual = 0;
>>
>> DoIO( &SCSIReq );
>
> Except this code does not include the actual scsi command. You still need
> to place the scsi command data in "buffer".
Right, this code was just a copy of the original. I hadn't changed
anything. Where is the data read from the drive put?
Jack