Hi, On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:57:21PM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> An interested user who really wants to burn CD, DVD, or BD, would be > an extra motivation. :)) Well, if I can find some working DVD drive for my Linux box, I could transfer the burner to the Hurd box :-) However, I hardly do any burning nowadays; so I'm not sure I would be a good tester... > Meanwhile this accident evolved and i have a test machine with > FreeBSD, Solaris, and Debian 5. It has a single disk where i could use > partition 2 with 50 GB for a real Hurd. But from lurking here i got > the impression that you all use it on virtual machines, rather than on > real amd64 + SATA + USB + Ethernet. Well, I for one use a real machine. However, it's an old Pentium3 box with PATA. Modern machines are problematic... > I understand from the comments in scsi_ioctl.c that this is a > predecessor of the Linux SG_IO interface (Linux kernel >= 2.4). Well, yes... The drivers are from Linux 2.0 -- not sure whether the functionality they offer is suitable for modern use... > I still have to explore how to beef up the userland side of > device_get_status(). Not sure what you mean by that. There is nothing you need to change about device_get_status() on the userspace side -- just invoke it with the right parameters... -antrik-
