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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 PURPOSE.