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I need to do some application programming to see if I can get at some
vendor-specific info from a tape jukebox (StorageTek). I'm very comfortable
in C, but I've never done any SCSI programming. My plan is to start basic,
such as getting an inquiry program working, and then get fancy.
I have the older (revision 1) "Writing Device Drivers for the SCSI/CAM
Architecture Interfaces" guide. That guide appears to be primarily aimed at
device driver writers (rather than for someone that wants to write an
application to interface with a SCSI device, though CAM), but there's enough
application-level code that I should be able to get started with that.
I see that that guide has been removed from the revision two device drivers
kit, though. This leaves me with some questions:
1) Should I be using the information in the revision 1 guide, or is there
a newer API that I should be investigating for SCSI under 5.x? Seems like
CAM is still the way to go, but the loss of the guide makes me wonder.
2) What other (good) SCSI CAM example code should I be looking at? I've
looked through the code that comes with XMcd, and that may be helpful, but
if there's additional code out there that I should be investigating, I would
love to know about it. The `cdrecord' program is another one I just thought
of. What others am I still missing?
3) Has anyone done a Linux (or Solaris) "SCSI generic" vs. Tru64 CAM
programming comparison document or web page? There's more example code
out there for Linux SCSI applications than there is for Tru64, so having
a Rosetta stone for translating the source to CAM would be a boon. Anyone
know of one?
Thanks!
Tim
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