centos man page for scsi_ready

Query: scsi_ready

OS: centos

Section: 8

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SCSI_READY(8)							     SG3_UTILS							     SCSI_READY(8)

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
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009-2013 Douglas Gilbert This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR- POSE.
SEE ALSO
sg_turs (sg3_utils) sg3_utils-1.36 May 2013 SCSI_READY(8)
Related Man Pages
scsi_temperature(8) - centos
scsi_mandat(8) - debian
scsi_temperature(8) - debian
scsi_start(8) - debian
sg_turs(8) - debian
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