/dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting "Larry Rosenman" <ler at 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...

Bye,
Alexander.

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