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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> ATA/SCSI autodetection is also still missing, therefore it is required 
>> to use /dev/hdX for ATA, and /dev/sdX for SCSI (or ATA behind SATL) disks.
>> This is also not consistent with Cygwin's device names, but more 
>> difficult to fix.
>>     
>
> I have another strange behaviour which I'm wondering how to solve.
> I'm runing XP on a mainboard with ATI SB600 SATA controller in
> "native IDE" mode(*).  When I run smartctl onthe only drive in the
> machine, I get the following reply:
>
>   $ /usr/sbin/smartctl.exe -i /dev/sda
>   smartctl version 5.37 [i686-cygwin-xp-sp2] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
>   Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
>   Device: ATI      1+0 JBOD         Version: 1.10
>   Device type: disk
>   Local Time is: Sun Jun 17 18:07:28 2007 WEST
>   Device does not support SMART
>
> Any idea why I don't get actual drive information but the name of
> the controller instead?  Any way around this?
>
>   

This is the SCSI INQUIRY data from SCSI_PASS_THROUGH ioctl.

To access ATA devices, try device name "/dev/hda" instead.
This should print ATA IDENTIFY data from SMART_RCV_DRIVE_DATA ioctl.
(unfortunately not implemented in all drivers).


>> BTW: For programs like smartmontools, hdparm or sdparm, which need 
>> I/O-controls unsupported by Cygwin, it would be useful to rely on 
>> Cygwin's open().
>> Is there a function to obtain the Windows HANDLE from a Cygwin fd (the 
>> opposite of cygwin_attach_handle_to_fd())?
>>     
>
> Yes:
>
>   #include <sys/cygwin.h>
>
>   int fd = open(...);
>   HANDLE h = (HANDLE) get_osfhandle (fd);
>
>   

Thanks,

Christian


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