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I'm currently away and we'll be able to look at it later on but initially you may want to utilize the POSIX interface that is available. I believe that there...

Did you try to utilize the posix interface for Darwin?

I can try to add the cmake bit, no problem. The rest will actually require some work with Mac OS X to resolve properly. Do you know if there is...

You can probably skip the scheduler, I dont recall right now what it was for but I doubt it is critical.

I agree. I'm backlogged on this work but showing some more information during the scan will make it more useful.

Would be useful to include full media verification in the sense that we generate a unique 512 block for each sector and then when reading verify that it is all...

I do not have a system with PATA devices (or even supports it) to be able to test and develop it. The ioctl with SCSI command would probably be the...

This method is going to be a lot less informative but I guess it would be better to have something rather than not being supported at all. I'll take a...

The fact that blk_sgio fails is directly related to the fact that the disks are not handled through the SCSI layer and libata. They are handled by the old PATA...

For this to work we need to use ATA commands in passthrough mode.