Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 23:28:55 +0200 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> To: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff Message-ID: <20070402212855.GA50351@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070402154835.F9231@thebighonker.lerctr.org> References: <02e101c77557$c5a68e60$50f3ab20$@org> <20070402204557.GA49440@freebsd.org> <20070402154835.F9231@thebighonker.lerctr.org>
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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
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