From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 21:28:57 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 6147816A401 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from vlakno.cz (vlk.vlakno.cz [62.168.28.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA6D13C448 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:28:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rdivacky@vlk.vlakno.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D0E48BCE4F; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:28:56 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at vlakno.cz Received: from vlakno.cz ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vlk.vlakno.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ovT3pLRQV0dP; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from vlk.vlakno.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vlakno.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A3EF8BCE44; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:28:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from rdivacky@localhost) by vlk.vlakno.cz (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l32LStFn050374; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:28:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rdivacky) Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:28:55 +0200 From: Roman Divacky To: Larry Rosenman Message-ID: <20070402212855.GA50351@freebsd.org> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> <20070402204557.GA49440@freebsd.org> <20070402154835.F9231@thebighonker.lerctr.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070402154835.F9231@thebighonker.lerctr.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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 21:28:57 -0000 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 thnx again