sg_rmsn
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Name
sg_rmsn - sends a SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command
Synopsis
sg_rmsn [--help] [--raw] [--readonly] [--verbose] [--ver-
sion] DEVICE
Description
SG3_UTILS SG_RMSN(8)
NAME
sg_rmsn - sends a SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command
SYNOPSIS
sg_rmsn [--help] [--raw] [--readonly] [--verbose] [--ver-
sion] DEVICE
DESCRIPTION
Send a SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command to DEVICE and
outputs the response.
This command is described in SPC-3 found at www.t10.org . It
was originally added to SPC-3 in revision 11 (2003/2/12). It
is not an mandatory command and the author has not seen any
SCSI devices that support it.
OPTIONS
Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as
well.
-h, --help
output the usage message then exit.
-r, --raw
sends the serial number (if found) to stdout. This out-
put may contain non-printable characters (e.g. the
serial number is padded with NULLs at the end so its
length is a multiple of 4). The default action is to
print the serial number out in ASCII-HEX with ASCII
characters to the right. All error messages are sent to
stderr.
-R, --readonly
opens the DEVICE read-only rather than read-write which
is the default. The Linux sg driver needs read-write
access for the SCSI READ MEDIA SERIAL NUMBER command
but other access methods may require read-only access.
-v, --verbose
increase the level of verbosity, (i.e. debug output).
-V, --version
print the version string and then exit.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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SG3_UTILS SG_RMSN(8)
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | system/storage/sg3_utils |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
Device identification information is also found in a stan-
dard INQUIRY response and its VPD pages (see sg_vpd). The
relevant VPD pages are the "device identification page" (VPD
page 0x83) and the "unit serial number" page (VPD page
0x80).
The MMC-4 command set for CD/DVD/HD-DVD/BD drives has a
"media serial number" feature (0x109) [and a "logical unit
serial number" feature]. These can be viewed with
sg_get_config.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status of sg_rmsn is 0 when it is successful. Oth-
erwise see the sg3_utils(8) man page.
AUTHORS
Written by Douglas Gilbert.
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2011 Douglas Gilbert
This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There
is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
SEE ALSO
sg_vpd(sg3_utils), sg_get_config(sg3_utils)
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils-1.33.tgz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at
http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html.
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