a call to create a port for seagate sg tool

[Boris Samorodov]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 08:47:40 -0500 (CDT) Larry Rosenman wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:08:05 +0200 Roman Divacky wrote:
> >
> >> Larry Rosenman asked whether we can run
> >
> >> (software link:
> >> http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=SeaTools:_Enterprise_Edition&vgnextoid=8f1bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD)
> >
> >> this software.. and in a few days scottl@ make it so that it
> >> works. from the discussion on cvs-src it looks like its really
> >> valuable. thnx scott (this time publicly)
> >
> >> I would like if you ports guys (bsam? netchild?) created a port for
> >> this seagate tool as it looks really useful. scott reports that it
> >
> > OK, the port (the main part) is just committed...
> >
> >> works ok beside "-l" and "-I" options which needs linprocfs
> >> support. so we should tell the user about it.
> >
> > ...except this one. Just no more time ATM. :-(
> >
> >> hopefully we will see this port soon :) sorry for not doing it myself
> >> but my ports-fu is nill :)
> >
> > Some notes:
> > 1. The ONLY_FOR_ARCHS is defined as "i386 amd64". Needs confirmation.
> > 2. Somebody from src-team should say which OSVERSIONS are OK to work
> >   with.
> > 3. Currently I'm a maintainer but I don't have the hardware. May be
> >   somebody is more interested to become a maintainer.

> Once the SG* stuff is MFC'd, I'd be happy to maintain the port, since
> I have Seagate drives, but the server is 6.2-STABLE.

OK, let's wait a little. ;-)
Thanks, Larry.


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