I'm working on a page documenting the SG_IO ioctl in the lk 2.6 series. this includes looking at its different implementation (i.e. in the block layer and in the sg driver). It is work in progress: http://www.torque.net/sg/sg_io.html Feedback welcome. Doug Gilbert - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html