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authorDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2008-12-27 20:21:09 +0000
committerDouglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>2008-12-27 20:21:09 +0000
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Introduction
============
The FreeBSD port of sg3_utils contains those utilities that are _not_
-specific to Linux. In some cases a utility could be ported but
-requires more work. An example is sg_dd which needs more work
-beyond the SCSI command pass through mechanism.
+specific to Linux. In some cases the FreeBSD camcontrol command supplies
+similar functionality; for example 'sg_map' is similar to
+'camcontrol devlist'.
+
+The dd variants from the sg3_utils package (e.g. sg_dd) rely on too many
+Linux idiosyncracies to be easily ported. A new package called 'ddpt'
+contains a utility with similar functionality to sg_dd and is available
+for FreeBSD.
Supported Utilities
===================
@@ -15,8 +20,8 @@ Here is a list of utilities that have been ported:
sg_logs
sg_luns
sg_modes
- sg_persist
sg_opcodes
+ sg_persist
sg_prevent
sg_raw
sg_rdac
@@ -77,12 +82,15 @@ be used. These can be viewed with the "camcontrol devlist"
command. To access ATAPI devices (e.g. ATAPI DVD drives) the
kernel may need to be configured with the "atapicam" device.
+Disks is FreeBSD have names like '/dev/da0' while the corresponding
+pass-through device may be '/dev/pass0'.
+
At the present time these utilities have been lightly tested on a
-FreeBSD version 6.2 system with some SCSI disks, a SCSI tape
+FreeBSD version 7.0 system with some SCSI disks, a SCSI tape
drive and an ATAPI CD drive.
See the FreeBSD section in the INSTALL file for install directions.
Doug Gilbert
-26th October 2008
+20th December 2008