Programming for hardware

[Andrew Falanga]

Hi everybody,

What libraries do I need to access hardware such as a hard drive? I
know how to write to files and such, but how would I program something
like accessing the HDD firmware and retrieving the model name?


A curiosity. I'd like to try some programming like this and don't know
where to start. I ask here because I'll be doing the development in
either Solaris or Linux (most likely Solaris). If I should ask
elsewhere, please just point me in the direction I should go.

Andy



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[Russell Shaw]

Andrew Falanga wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> What libraries do I need to access hardware such as a hard drive? I
> know how to write to files and such, but how would I program something
> like accessing the HDD firmware and retrieving the model name?
>
> A curiosity. I'd like to try some programming like this and don't know
> where to start. I ask here because I'll be doing the development in
> either Solaris or Linux (most likely Solaris). If I should ask
> elsewhere, please just point me in the direction I should go.

[url]http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.5/libc.html[/url]