Re^2: SCSI operations in Perl

Sounds like a queston from a WinXP user ;-)

According to http://www.cabal.org.uk/freeware/perl/Device::SCSI.html

The module is modular (oddly enough), and it would be reasonably simple to extend to support SCSI access on other platforms.

So just hack around with the code.

When I come across stuff like this, I realize I'm just a wannabe geek.

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Re^3: SCSI operations in Perl by tlemons (Novice) on Apr 21, 2005 at 17:52 UTC
Yes, I do need to make this work on Windows (2003 and 2000, specifically). I'm not easily capable of extending Device::SCSI; otherwise, I'd gladly extend the prior work. But, if I do have to try to extend Device::SCSI, do you have any helpful suggestions? For instance, the Linux implementation looks for instances of /dev/sg??; this same technique will not work on Windows (I think). So, what would work, that could be used programatically from Perl? Thanks tl	[reply]
Re^4: SCSI operations in Perl by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 21, 2005 at 18:13 UTC
Nope, Wintendo doesn't have device files. Best guess is going to look and see if there's either a set of Win32 calls for accessing raw SCSI devices, or some DLL which gives you the same which you can get at through Win32::API or the like. (I'm not a Wintendo person; does it show? :)	[reply]