Section 8 · System administration

scsi_ready.8

Package: sg3_utils

SCSI_READY

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT STATUS
AUTHORS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

NAME

scsi_ready − do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices

SYNOPSIS

scsi_ready [−−brief] [−−help] [−−verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

DESCRIPTION

This bash shell script calls the sg_turs utility on each given DEVICE. This will send a SCSI TEST UNIT READY command to each DEVICE. Disks, tape drives and DVD/BD players amongst others may respond to this SCSI command.

OPTIONS

Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well. **
−b**, −−brief

for each DEVICE given output a line containing either ’ ready’ or ’ device not ready’. If DEVICE is not found or there is another serious error then an error message will appear instead.

−h, −−help

print out the usage message then exit.

−v, −−verbose

increase level or verbosity.

EXIT STATUS

The exit status of this script is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise the exit status is that of the last sg_turs utility called. See the sg3_utils(8) man page.

AUTHORS

Written by D. Gilbert