From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 20:54:27 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 C97E116A401 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:54:27 +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 A133913C457 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:54:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from thebighonker.lerctr.org ([192.147.25.65]:56430) by thebighonker.lerctr.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HYTXl-0002Su-Gb; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:54:27 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:54:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman To: Alexander Leidinger In-Reply-To: <20070402225207.3b097c67@Magellan.Leidinger.net> Message-ID: <20070402155327.P9430@thebighonker.lerctr.org> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> <20070402225207.3b097c67@Magellan.Leidinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-LERCTR-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamScore (-4.4/5.0) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8,BAYES_00=-2.599 X-LERCTR-Spam-Report: SpamScore (-4.4/5.0) ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8,BAYES_00=-2.599 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 20:54:27 -0000 On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > 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... We don't, as far as I know, map the linux /dev/sga device at all. I'm not even sure how to go about THAT, before we even get to what ioctl()'s are here/there. LER > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- 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