From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 21:41:39 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 11DD016A404; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:41:39 +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 E52FF13C44B; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:41:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from thebighonker.lerctr.org ([192.147.25.65]:53681) by thebighonker.lerctr.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HYUHR-0002zE-2S; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:41:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:41:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman To: Roman Divacky In-Reply-To: <20070402212855.GA50351@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20070402164027.I11442@thebighonker.lerctr.org> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> <20070402204557.GA49440@freebsd.org> <20070402154835.F9231@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <20070402212855.GA50351@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 21:41:39 -0000 On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: > 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 The box is 150+ miles away stuffed in a colo. It's also my main DNS / Mail / Web server. Sorry, but I don't think I can do that, at least with the scsi drive. I do have a new box coming that will have Seagate SATA drives, and might be able to test that..... LER > > thnx again > -- 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