Hello all
I'm trying to pull some information from the SNIA's HBA API (http://
hbaapi.sourceforge.net).  The function I'm  having difficulty with is
HBA_GetAdapterAttributes, which according to the API, returns a single
pointer to a struct.  The struct in C is:

typedef struct hba_AdapterAttributes {
    char	Manufacturer[64];
    char	SerialNumber[64];
    char	Model[256];
    char	ModelDescription[256];
    HBA_WWN	NodeWWN;
    char	NodeSymbolicName[256];
    char	HardwareVersion[256];
    char	DriverVersion[256];
    char	OptionROMVersion[256];
    char	FirmwareVersion[256];
    HBA_UINT32	VendorSpecificID;
    HBA_UINT32	NumberOfPorts;
    char	DriverName[256];
} HBA_ADAPTERATTRIBUTES, *PHBA_ADAPTERATTRIBUTES;

And the function in question is:
HBA_API HBA_STATUS HBA_GetAdapterAttributes(
    HBA_HANDLE		handle,
    HBA_ADAPTERATTRIBUTES   *hbaattributes
    );

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In Ruby, I created the struct as so:
class HBA_AdapterAttributes < FFI::Struct
	layout :Manufacturer, :char
	:SerialNumber, :char,
	:Model, :char,
	:ModelDescription, :char,
	:NodeWWN, :uint8,
	:NodeSymbolicName, :char,
	:HardwareVersion, :char,
	:DriverVersion, :char,
	:OptionROMVersion, :char,
	:FirmwareVersion, :char,
	:VendorSpecificID, :uint32,
	:NumberOfPorts, :uint32,
	:DriverName, :char
end

Now def get_struct pointer
def get_struct pointer
	HBA::HBA_AdapterAttributes.new pointer
end

Calling the get_struct_pointer returns an array of fixnums, instead of
any string values.

Any idea what I'm overlooking here?