Friday, May 21, 2004

Storage/ PLScsi/ Changes/

Future:

Implement all the documented "should"s.

Implement more quickly if you find the time to write Pat LaVarre to tell us you care.

Friday, May 21, 2004

Add gccscsi in Mac OS X for "authoring" DVD/ CD devices.

Add first cross-references to Solaris doc of SCSI pass through.

Add first mention of Linux ioctl CDROM_SEND_PACKET alternative to Linux ioctl SG_IO.

Add first mention that every specified length should be specified as $length.$page.$offset.

Revise html to page up and down less.  Also link more often to whole folders.

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Link to linux/ rather than obsolete linux.html.

Monday, November 24, 2003

Wish more emphatically that we could find time to copy to here what we're learning from the less concise web.

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Link to linux-scsi talk of merge of plscsi with gccscsi.  Change mailto links to suggest Subject.  Restore link to google.html.  Link to mac/ rather than obsolete mac.html.

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Restore HTTP: links here, despite Mozilla Composer cut-and-paste converting to local FILE: links from HTTP: links.

Thursday, October 9, 2003:

Move the Download links conveniently above the See Also links.  Add the diskid32 link to ATA pass thru.

Tuesday, October 7, 2003:

Add the tutorial.  Add the "should"s of -X within and -X late and -X sense.  Distinguish Unix /dev/fd/0 from Unix /dev/fd0.  Separate the platform distinguishing options.  Mention Linux sgp_dd more prominently.  Polish some <br> and <div> out of the .html.

Saturday, September 27, 2003:

Merge in the old change history.  Polish the .html.  Work to raise the Google weight of Pat LaVarre's home page.

Wednesday, September 24, 2003

Change to a links-on-the-side .html format that the free cross-platform Mozilla Composer supports, abandon Microsoft Front Page Express.  Link to pldd/ and to gccscsi/.  Write the "should"s of -i -o -f -fx -t -n.

February 12, 2003

Launch the java gui effort.  Link to Microsoft re mode sense of header crashing Win 2K.  Post examples of Atapi Dma rounding up the count of data bytes to copy past the allotted length of memory.

December 21, 2002

Also divide the related tools by platform.

December 7, 2002

Revise plscsi/ to suit people who work with only a few of Linux, Win 2K/XP, Win 9X/ME, Dos, Mac OF, etc.

November 2, 2002

Add 2002/09/22/review.html.  Disentangle skip= from seek= via man dd.

October 31, 2002

Add example of Scsi pass thru to \\.\TAPE0 for Win Device Manager "Tape drives" (not "Unknown Devices" that are tape drives).  Link to Knoppix Linux, link to Win registry browser.

October 9, 2002

Link to web re boot from hdd and the FAT16LFN/ FAT32 filesystem.

September 9, 2002

Change details lost, but the code released then survived unchanged for more than a year.

July 8, 2002

Add Linux 2.4/ 2.6 to Win 9X/ ME/ 2K/ XP and Dos.

April 9, 2002

Publish plscsi for Dos by http, find Scsi pass thru in Linux ioctl SG_IO.

2001

Distribute plscsi for Win 2K/ XP to a usb-storage mailing list.

Earlier still:

Distribute plscsi for Dos by person-to-person e-mail.

April 9, 2002

Publish!

Lately:

(Posted by Pat LaVarre)