| From: | Nicholas Clarke |
| Date: | 15 Aug 99 at 01:23:33 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Accessing Broken SCSI |
From: Nicholas Clarke <nclarke@diku.dk>
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > AFAIK In case the harddisk is without an rdb sending normal commands
> > will not have an effect.
> They certainly should.
I could read from unit0 but not from unit1 where I had a friends crashed
pc hd on. On the other hand his hd could actually have been broken and
you could be right. Anyhow I didn't have time to code an scsi tool so I
never managed to see if it was the rdb or the hd's fault it wouldn't read.
> > I also tried sending normal commands to an ide harddisk with no rdb,
> > didn't work either.
>
> I think you must be mistaken.
No, but as I say the hd could be that the had was broken.
> > Also the ide scsi.device emulates an scsi controller so why not take
> > advantage of it as one.
> Sending SCSI commands is much more complicated, and the official
> documentation costs additional money.
Sufficient information can be found on ftp or from those cd-r reference
books which are also free from their respective manufacturers.
/ngc