On Tue, 11 Jun 1996 22:38:28 -0600 
 Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:

 > FreeBSD has a scsi command.  However, I believe that it requires at
 > least some kernel support.  It lets you execute an arbitrary scsi
 > command, so you really have to have the permissions of the disk drives
 > correct.

NetBSD has the same (or similar) support for user-land access to raw SCSI 
commands.  xmcd uses this facility, as does my sdremap program, which I've 
posted here previously.

 > Should likely prove useful for this sort of undertaking.

Actually, I was thinking of something much more "high-level" than what 
FreeBSD provides as a libscsi and scsi(8) ... The FreeBSD libscsi doesn't 
look terribly useful itself ... It places a _lot_ of responsibility on 
the calling application (much more than I would consider necessary), which 
seems to defeat the purpose of a library.

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