/dev/sga (Linux) SCSI Command Stuff

[Roman Divacky]

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

thnx again