Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Direct access to hardware | Date | Tue, 25 Jul 2000 13:59:10 -0400 | From | Paul Barton-Davis <> |
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James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> writes: >On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Stephen Frost wrote: >> The kernel provides a nice clean interface to devices which conform to >> the spec. Note that such raw access is, from what I can tell, part of >> the spec, just the specific data sent using it isn't specified in the >> spec and has been used by vendors to provide vendor-specific hooks, >> which reminds me of 'SCSI generic'... > >It's dangerous - and the only legitimate use of this "feature" is one >which shouldn't be done from within Linux in the first place.
let me get this straight. are you saying that the "jaz" utility which lets me password-protect write access to my jaz disks should not exist under Linux ? this utility requires the ability to send that are vendor-and-device-specific SCSI commands to the drive.
--p
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