site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com Yep. Check out Q&A 1179 "Sending SCSI or ATA commands to storage devices". <http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1179.html> S+E -- Quinn "The Eskimo!" <http://www.apple.com/developer/> Apple Developer Relations, Developer Technical Support, Core OS/Hardware _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... At 9:33 -0700 20/9/06, Michael Smith wrote: I dimly recall that SCSI direct access is not permitted to DA devices, as the OS driver claims exclusive ownership. btw I found this by going to <http://developer.apple.com> and searching for "direct access to scsi". It was the second hit. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com