Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 15:54:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff Message-ID: <20070402155327.P9430@thebighonker.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <20070402225207.3b097c67@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> <20070402225207.3b097c67@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting "Larry Rosenman" <ler@lerctr.org> (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
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