scsi_stop - stop (spin down) one or more SCSI disks
scsi_stop [--help] [--verbose] [--wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]*
SCSI_STOP(8) SG3_UTILS SCSI_STOP(8)
NAME
scsi_stop - stop (spin down) one or more SCSI disks
SYNOPSIS
scsi_stop [--help] [--verbose] [--wait] DEVICE [DEVICE]*
DESCRIPTION
This bash shell script calls the sg_start utility on each given DEVICE.
The purpose is to spin down (stop) each given DEVICE.
OPTIONS
Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.
-h, --help
print out the usage message then exit.
-v, --verbose
increase level or verbosity.
-w, --wait
wait for the spin down (stop) on each given DEVICE to complete.
The default action is to do each stop in immediate mode.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | system/storage/sg3_utils |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-through uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
The sg_start utility calls the SCSI START STOP UNIT command and can
either start (spin up) or stop (spin down) a SCSI disk depending on the
given command line options.
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.
EXIT STATUS
The exit status of this script is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise
the exit status is that of the last sg_start 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.
SEE ALSO
sg_start (sg3_utils)
sg3_utils-1.36 May 2013 SCSI_STOP(8)