Re: [linux-minidisc] changed himdformat.c to work on linux and windows

[Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 01:35:48AM +0100, Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
 > Can you provide a link to the upstream website of libsgutils? If we
> can get this library to work on MacOS as well, we can integrate the
> format command into qhimdtransfer which would be a great improvement,
> wouldn't it?

Hmm, I just checked the homepage of sg3-utils and they have ports for
various Unices and Windows, but there is no MacOS X port,
unfortunately.

So, there are two possibilites: Either we will get the *BSD port of
libsgutils to work on MacOS X (since *BSD and MacOS X are very close
relatives it might be worth a try) or we have to stick to my old
proposal and use libusal from the CDR-Kit suite:

<http://www.cdrkit.org/>

libusal is part of CDR-Kit, which is a fork of the (in-)famous
cdrecord suite by Joerg Schilling, where libusal is called libscg. In
any case, these libraries provide a generic SCSI interface which works
on at least a dozen of various operating systems, including MacOS,
Linux and Windows. So this should be a way for us to get SCSI support
working on all supported platforms.

Adrian