From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 21:45:08 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 900AF16A401; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:45:08 +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 6EDA513C468; Mon, 2 Apr 2007 21:45:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: from thebighonker.lerctr.org ([192.147.25.65]:56680) by thebighonker.lerctr.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HYUKo-00032Q-Ml; Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:45:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:45:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman To: Roman Divacky In-Reply-To: <20070402214258.GA50571@freebsd.org> Message-ID: <20070402164432.F11628@thebighonker.lerctr.org> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> <20070402204557.GA49440@freebsd.org> <20070402154835.F9231@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <20070402212855.GA50351@freebsd.org> <20070402164027.I11442@thebighonker.lerctr.org> <20070402214258.GA50571@freebsd.org> 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 21:45:08 -0000 On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: > On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:41:35PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> 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..... > > I am in a good mood so I guess I'll port the stuff from netbsd tomorrow. it looks > very easy. I hope you will test :) > > going to bed now :) I'd need a RELENG_6 patch :) If you can do that for amd64, I'll test and see what seatools does with/to it. Thanks! > > 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