/dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff

[Larry Rosenman]

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.....

LER

>
> thnx again
>

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