Forwarding to bug-hurd where I think this is more appropriate and the right people will see your mail.
Emilio -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Interface for SCSI transactions ? Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 16:17:13 +0200 From: Thomas Schmitt <scdbac...@gmx.net> To: help-h...@gnu.org Hi, i would like to explore the possibilities to let GNU xorriso burn CD, DVD or BD media on GNU/Hurd. xorriso uses libburn which directly performs SCSI transactions with optical drives. Currently it supports the generic SCSI interfaces of GNU/Linux (SG_IO), FreeBSD (CAM) and Solaris (uscsi). xorriso and its libraries already get compiled for hurd-386 on Debian buildd. But they use a dummy SCSI adapter and can only operate on files, not on MMC drives. The porting task would be to derive a Hurd system adapter from the ones for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris or libcdio. (http://libburnia-project.org/browser/libburn/trunk/libburn/sg-*.c http://libburnia-project.org/browser/libburn/trunk/libburn/os-*.h) The SCSI gestures of CD/DVD/BD burning are described in http://libburnia-project.org/browser/libburn/trunk/doc/cookbook.txt Before trying to add Debian hurd-i386 to the systems on my amd64 test machine, i would like to check out whether there is documentation or an interested tutor for the tasks of listing all MMC drives, getting (exclusive) access to a drive, sending SCSI commands, getting reply data and error indications. Luxury would of course be a remote account on a machine where i am allowed to cautiously grope a DVD drive. It would not have to be a burner. The job is done as soon as i get the drive listed and can inquire its manufacturer information. Have a nice day :) Thomas
