/dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff

[Larry Rosenman]

On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Roman Divacky wrote:

> 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 :)

I'd need a RELENG_6 patch :)

If you can do that for amd64, I'll test and see what seatools does with/to it.

Thanks!

>
> roman
>

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