sg_turs - send one or more SCSI TEST UNIT READY commands
sg_turs [--delay=MS] [--help] [--low] [--num=NUM] [--number=NUM] [--progress] [--time] [--verbose] [--version] DEVICE sg_turs [-d=MS] [-n=NUM] [-p] [-t] [-v] [-V] DEVICE
SG_TURS(8) SG3_UTILS SG_TURS(8) NAME sg_turs - send one or more SCSI TEST UNIT READY commands SYNOPSIS sg_turs [--delay=MS] [--help] [--low] [--num=NUM] [--number=NUM] [--progress] [--time] [--verbose] [--version] DEVICE sg_turs [-d=MS] [-n=NUM] [-p] [-t] [-v] [-V] DEVICE DESCRIPTION This utility sends one or more SCSI TEST UNIT READY commands to the DEVICE. This may be useful for timing the per command overhead. Note that TEST UNIT READY has no associated data, just a 6 byte command (with each byte a zero) and a returned SCSI status value. This utility supports two command line syntaxes, the preferred one is shown first in the synopsis and explained in this section. A later sec- tion on the old command line syntax outlines the second group of options. OPTIONS Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well. -d, --delay=MS this option causes a delay of MS milliseconds to occur before each TEST UNIT READY command is issued. -h, --help print out the usage message then exit. -l, --low when [--progress] is not being used, this utility tries to com- plete the SCSI TEST UNIT READY command(s) as quickly as possi- ble. Usually it calls a library function to do each TUR (sg_ll_test_unit_ready). With this option it uses the lower level sg_pt interface (see sg_pt.h) to save a little time on each TUR. -n, --num=NUM performs TEST UNIT READY NUM times. If not given defaults to 1. These suffix multipliers are permitted: c C *1; w W *2; b B *512; k K KiB *1,024; KB *1,000; m M MiB *1,048,576; MB *1,000,000; g G GiB *1,073,741,824; and GB *1,000,000,000 . Also a suffix of the form "x<n>" multiplies the leading number by <n>. Alternatively a hex number may be given, prefixed by either '0x' or has a trailing 'h'. --number=NUM same as --num=NUM. Added for compatibility with sg_requests and other utilities in this package. The sg_request utility has taken over the role of polling the progress indication which was originally assigned to the TEST UNIT READY command. This is a change by T10. -O, --old Switch to older style options. Please use as first option. -p, --progress show progress indication (a percentage) if available. If --num=NUM is given, NUM is greater than 1 and an initial progress indication was detected then this utility waits 30 sec- onds before subsequent checks. If the --delay=MS option is given then it will wait for that number of milliseconds instead of 30 seconds. Exits when NUM is reached or there are no more progress indications. Ignores --time option. See NOTES section below. -t, --time after completing the requested number of TEST UNIT READY com- mands, outputs the total duration and the average number of com- mands executed per second. -v, --verbose increase level or verbosity. -V, --version print version string then exit. 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 progress indication is optionally part of the sense data. When a prior command that takes a long time to complete (and typically pre- cludes other media access commands) is still underway, the progress indication can be used to determine how long before the device returns to its normal state. Around SPC-3 T10 changed the preferred command for polling the progress indication from TEST UNIT READY to REQUEST SENSE (see the sg_requests utility). The SCSI FORMAT command for disks used with the IMMED bit set is an example of an operation that takes a significant amount of time and precludes other media access during that time. The IMMED bit set instructs the FORMAT command to return control to the application client once the format has commenced (see SBC-3). Several long duration SCSI commands associated with tape drives also use the progress indica- tion (see SSC-3). The DEVICE is opened with a read-only flag (e.g. in Unix with the O_RDONLY flag). Early standards suggested that the SCSI TEST UNIT READY command be used for polling the progress indication. More recent standards seem to sug- gest the SCSI REQUEST SENSE command should be used instead. 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 sg_turs is 0 when it is successful (e.g. in the case of a mechanical disk, it is spun up and ready to accept commands). For this utility the other exit status of interest is 2 corresponding to the "not ready" sense key. For other exit status values see the sg3_utils(8) man page. OLDER COMMAND LINE OPTIONS The options in this section were the only ones available prior to sg3_utils version 1.23 . Since then this utility defaults to the newer command line options which can be overridden by using --old (or -O) as the first option. See the ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES section for another way to force the use of these older command line options. -d, --delay=MS this option causes a delay of MS milliseconds to occur before each TEST UNIT READY command is issued. -n=NUM performs TEST UNIT READY NUM times. If not given defaults to 1. Equivalent to --num=NUM in the main description. -N, --new Switch to the newer style options. -p show progress indication (a percentage) if available. Equiva- lent to --progress in the main description. -t after completing the requested number of TEST UNIT READY com- mands, outputs the total duration and the average number of com- mands executed per second. Equivalent to --time in the main description. -v increase level of verbosity. -V print out version string then exit. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES Since sg3_utils version 1.23 the environment variable SG3_UTILS_OLD_OPTS can be given. When it is present this utility will expect the older command line options. So the presence of this environ- ment variable is equivalent to using --old (or -O) as the first command line option. AUTHORS Written by D. Gilbert COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2000-2020 Douglas Gilbert This software is distributed under the GPL version 2. There is NO war- ranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PUR- POSE. SEE ALSO sg_inq, sg_requests (sg3_utils) sg3_utils-1.46 July 2020 SG_TURS(8)