[illumos-Discuss] [illumos-Developer] SES support for Super Micro chassises?

[Joerg Schilling]

Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Jason King <jason.brian.king at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You'd probably need to write a C program that opens the device
> > (assuming one is created on the system) and use the uscsi interface to
> > issue the commands as ioctls.
>
>
> Or use sg_senddiag from sg3_utils package.

Isn't this Linux only?

The OS independent way of sending SCSI commands to arbitrary targets (since 
August 1986) is libscg. It is e.g. part of cdrtools.

BTW: There is also sformat(1), see:

	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily

that includes a lot of SCSI handling interfaces for disks. sformat was the 
first command that allows to format disks while SunOS was still running (Sun 
forced their customers to boot into a stand alone format utility at that time) 
and sformat was the example for the format utility that has been later written 
by Sun.

Jörg

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