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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:45:57 +0200
From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org>
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Subject: Re: /dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff
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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 :)

thnx

roman