Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 00:02:15 -0500 From: "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org> To: "Eric Anderson" <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff Message-ID: <200704030002160000@547324137>
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the seatools url was in my first post of the thread. Thanks for jumping in, Eric. Larry Rosenman (via mobile) ------- Original Message ------- From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Sent: 4/2/07, 11:17:38 PM Subject: Re: /dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff On 04/02/07 16:45, Larry Rosenman wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:41:35PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: >>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: >>> >>>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 03:50:23PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:50:13PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: >>>>>>> Greetings, >>>>>>> I was wondering if any of the developers or hackers had ever >>>>>>> considered >>>>>>> making the linux emulation strong enough to run things like Seagate's >>>>>>> Seatools? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a disk that's reporting a bad sector, and Seagate is insisting >>>>>>> that I run their software to test it. Unfortunately, their software is >>>>>>> Windows or Linux ONLY. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm wondering if there is any chance that we might see enough of the >>>>>>> emulation to be able to send generic SCSI commands from a linux binary >>>>>>> on >>>>>>> a >>>>>>> FreeBSD box. >>>>>> netbsd implements plenty of ioctls we don't... by a chance can you test >>>>>> on >>>>>> netbsd? and possibly on solaris as we might ste^borrow from them too :) >>>>> I don't have access to NetBSD or Solaris boxes with Seagate drives in >>>>> them. >>>>> >>>>> Also, we don't (AFAIK) expose /dev/sga to the linux world through the >>>>> linux-o-lator so I don't even know if what I want is possible. >>>> hehe.. guess what.. netbsd supports that :) at least partially. so PLEASE >>>> test the netbsd somehow so we know that the netbsd support is sufficient >>> The box is 150+ miles away stuffed in a colo. It's also my main DNS / Mail >>> / >>> Web server. >>> >>> Sorry, but I don't think I can do that, at least with the scsi drive. >>> >>> I do have a new box coming that will have Seagate SATA drives, and might be >>> able to test that..... >> I am in a good mood so I guess I'll port the stuff from netbsd tomorrow. it looks >> very easy. I hope you will test :) >> >> going to bed now :) > > I'd need a RELENG_6 patch :) > > If you can do that for amd64, I'll test and see what seatools does with/to it. > > Thanks! > >> roman >> > I have a Seagate drive (several actually) in a -CURRENT box I can test with. Feel free to point the patch to me, and I'll take a look. A quick pointer to download the seatools for linux would save me a few mins though. :) Eric
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