issuing hard drive commands with java

Question

Does anyone know of a way to issue commands to a hard drive within Java? Does Java even support this kind of hardware interaction?

For example, if I have a SCSI hard dri

Answer 1

No, since Java runs in a "virtual" machine rather than a real one. But it could be used as a bridge as dj mentioned earlier using JNI.

According to Wikipedia JNI can also call assembly directly. JNI could be used to call complete programs written in C or C++