From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 20:50:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4547216A401 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from thebighonker.lerctr.org (thebighonker.lerctr.org [192.147.25.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D3FB13C46E for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:50:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from thebighonker.lerctr.org ([192.147.25.65]:60845) by thebighonker.lerctr.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HYTTt-0002Q7-N0; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:50:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:50:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman To: Roman Divacky In-Reply-To: <20070402204557.GA49440@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20070402154835.F9231@thebighonker.lerctr.org> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> <20070402204557.GA49440@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-LERCTR-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamScore (-4.3/5.0) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599, TW_HN=0.077 X-LERCTR-Spam-Report: SpamScore (-4.3/5.0) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, BAYES_00=-2.599, TW_HN=0.077 DomainKey-Status: no signature Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 20:50:28 -0000 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. Is there a way to may /dev/sga in the linux world to /dev/passn in the FreeBSD world and see what they pass? LER > > thnx > > roman > -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 512-248-2683 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 430 Valona Loop, Round Rock, TX 78681-3893