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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 © 2009-2013 Douglas Gilbert
       This software is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for MER‐
       CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       sg_turs (sg3_utils)



sg3_utils-1.36                                May 2013                                 SCSI_READY(8)