| From: | Jack York |
| Date: | 14 Aug 99 at 15:10:36 |
| Subject: | Re: Accessing Broken SCSI |
From: Jack York <jyork@voyager.net>
Hello Nicholas
On 13-Aug-99, Nicholas Clarke wrote:
> From: Nicholas Clarke <nclarke@diku.dk>
>
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>
>>> As I said I never tried anything with the SCSI device so I am just
>>> trying to convert some code to my purposes. CMD_READ may well be
>>> easier but without an example it still isn't clear.
>>
>> See the documentation of trackdisk.device - trackdisk.doc, the RKRM:
>> Devices section on it, and example code. SCSI device drivers support
>> virtually all trackdisk functionality (there are a few commands that
>> are documented as specific to trackdisk.device).
>
> AFAIK In case the harddisk is without an rdb sending normal commands
> will not have an effect. The same goes for scsi cdroms/cdr's. I also tried
> sending normal commands to an ide harddisk with no rdb, didn't work
> either.
I've seen some sample code that the author said could read data
off the drive without an RDB but it was written for FFS. I didn't
want to get off on another tangent trying to convert it so I don't
know if it is possible or not.
Jack