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From: Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>
Subject: Re: SG_IO inquiry...
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:26:13 -0500
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MASTHAN DUDEKULA wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> By using SG_IO ioctl How can we get device related info (like device
> type--disk,tape,cdrom..etc) ?

If you look at http://www.torque.net/sg/sg3_utils.html
and fetch a tarball (e.g. sg3_utils-1.23.tgz) then have
a look at the examples/sg_simple1.c file.

Doug Gilbert