From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 20:52:14 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 639DA16A403 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C61413C458 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:52:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54a5ef85.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.239.133]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00FE92E139; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:52:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from Magellan.Leidinger.net (Magellan.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.1]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DCB95B4817; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:52:08 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 22:52:07 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: "Larry Rosenman" Message-ID: <20070402225207.3b097c67@Magellan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.864, required 8, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No 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 20:52:14 -0000 Quoting "Larry Rosenman" (Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:50:13 -0500): > 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. I assume it is not failing because of a missing syscall but because of missing IOCTLs on a device. If that is the case, the reason we don't have this is that nobody was interested so far and did the work. Maybe you are interested enough to do it... Bye, Alexander. -- solar flares http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137