/dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff

[Larry Rosenman]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Alexander Leidinger wrote:

> 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...
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.
>
>

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