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don't know if this is easy but could you make the method/source available for sending these commands. So other programmers can try/experiment themselves (on other drives etc).
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Microsoft's Windows Driver Kit, SPTI example is the starting point to learn to talk to the drive directly from Win32 programs. It's not very hard and it doesn't require writing a driver.
MMC6 is a beast, but it contains just about everything you need to learn what commands to use. Like KenD00 said, there are many tools that allow you to send a command or two.