/dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff

[Roman Divacky]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:41:35PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> 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.....

I am in a good mood so I guess I'll port the stuff from netbsd tomorrow. it looks
very easy. I hope you will test :)

going to bed now :)

roman