Smartmontools don't work with /dev/stX, /dev/nstX

[Christian Franke]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Christian,
>
> On Cygwin the device names for tapes are /dev/stX and /dev/nstX.
> Smartmontools require to use /dev/tapeX.  Any problem to change
> that so that the /dev/stX, /dev/nstX syntax works on Cygwin as well?
>
>   

No problem, easy to fix. I will add this.

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.

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())?

Christian


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