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Welcome, bienvenido, bienvenue.

PLScsi makes talking SCSI to your storage as easy as typing AT commands into a dial-up modem.

Think:

{ open(); ioctl{}; close(); exit(); }

PLScsi makes that source fragment as interactive as a C interpreter could, taking the SCSI CDB in hex from the command line and streaming the binary data in/out thru stdout or stdin.

Here you can find:

PLScsi can work for you if you have some combination of:

Storage Devices:

Cabling:

CardBus, FireWire (aka iLink aka 1394), PATA/ PATAPI (aka IDE aka ATA/ ATAPI), PC Card, SATA/ SATAPI, SPI (aka SCSI), USB

Operating Systems:

Dos, Linux 2.6/ 2.4, Mac OS X/ OF, Solaris, Windows XP/ 2K, Windows ME/ 98/ 95/ 3.1

PLScsi can work for you at several levels:

Learning to use a tool like PLScsi will probably remind you of the need to backup often.  If you won't enjoy that lesson, then please don't pick up the tool.  Potential side effects include kernel panics, destroyed discs, destroyed devices, and even imperceptibly subtle forms of data corruption. Storage devices differ from modems first by being designed to record your mistakes permanently, and second by defining some commands or sequences of commands to mean self-destruct.

We have not yet heard of anyone hurt by trying `plscsi -w`, which lists all devices to which your O.S. has given one of the well-known SCSI device names. We do recommend first trying `plscsi -w` only while no drives are sleeping, spinning up, or spinning down.

Please write to Pat LaVarre to share your experience of PLScsi.  As that mailto link suggests, please include the word plscsi in the Subject line of your e-mail.  Blank subject lines and vague subject lines like "hi" help lose your e-mail as if it were spam.