scsi_ready - do SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices
scsi_ready [--brief] [--help] [--verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]*
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 war-
ranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR-
POSE.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | system/storage/sg3_utils |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
SEE ALSO
sg_turs (sg3_utils)
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://sg.danny.cz/sg/p/sg3_utils-1.46.tgz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html.
sg3_utils-1.36 May 2013 SCSI_READY(8)