Hi Thomas, On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 07:59:23AM +0200, Thomas Arp wrote: > Hello, > as we successfully formatted himd media with libscg from > cdrtools package i have writen a small tool to test > other scsi commands. This looks very good. Actually, I wanted to write exactly such a program to test all that SCSI stuff. You always seem to be anticipate my ideas ;). I will check your code and commit it to the repository into the basictools folder. > To built it you have to build and install cdrtools > from the source first and then link to libschily > and libscg. > The needed libs/headers will be installed in /opt/schily > by "make install" command in cdrtools root directory. So, building it should be analogous to building the SCG version of himdformat, right? > I am in contact with Joerg Schilling (author of cdrtools) > to fix problems when building windows version of cdrtools > on mingw/msys environment. This sounds great. You should try to convince Joerg to integrate any possibly necessary patches upstream into cdrecord to avoid a patch avalanche ;). On the other hand we still have the problem that apparently we cannot send any SCSI commands to non-CD/DVD/BD drives on MacOS X. We will need to patch cdrtools as well, so that it will also work with the HiMD. When connecting a USB cdrom, the drive is detected by "cdrecord -scanbus" so it's not an issue with the bus but rather with the drive type. Any ideas? Michael was already suggesting that it's a matter of cdrecord using the SCSI driver from MacOS which provides access to the optical drives only. Adrian