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SG_IDENT(8)                                 SG3_UTILS                                 SG_IDENT(8)

NAME
       sg_ident - send SCSI REPORT/SET IDENTIFYING INFORMATION command

SYNOPSIS
       sg_ident [--ascii] [--clear] [--help] [--itype=IT] [--raw] [--set] [--verbose] [--version]
       DEVICE

DESCRIPTION
       Send a SCSI REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION or SET IDENTIFYING INFORMATION command  to  DE-
       VICE.  Prior to SPC-4 (revision 7) these commands were called REPORT DEVICE IDENTIFIER and
       SET DEVICE IDENTIFIER respectively. SCSI devices that support  these  two  commands  allow
       users  to  write  (set) identifying information and report it back at some later time. The
       information is persistent (i.e. stored on some non-volatile medium within the SCSI  device
       that will survive a power outage).

       Typically  the  space  allocated for the information is limited: SPC-4 (revision 7) states
       that for information type 0, the minimum length is 64 bytes and the maximum is 512  bytes.
       For other information types (1 to 126 inclusive) the maximum length is 256 bytes. Also in-
       formation types 1 to 126 (inclusive) should contain a null terminated  UTF-8  string.  The
       author has seen older disks that only support 16 bytes.

       The  default action when no options are given is to invoke the Report Identifying Informa-
       tion command with the information type defaulting to  zero.  Error  reports  are  sent  to
       stderr. By default the information is shown in ASCII-HEX (up to 16 bytes per line) with an
       ASCII representation to the right with dots replacing non printable characters.

OPTIONS
       Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well.

       -A, --ascii
              invokes the Report Identifying Information command and if anything is found  inter-
              prets  it  as ASCII (or UTF-8 which is locale dependent) and prints the information
              to stdout.

       -C, --clear
              invokes the Set Identifying Information command with an information length of zero.
              This has the effect of clearing the existing information.

       -h, --help
              output the usage message then exit.

       -i, --itype=IT
              where  IT is the information type. Defaults to zero. The maximum value is 127 which
              is special and cannot be used with --set or --clear. The information  type  of  127
              (if  supported) causes the REPORT IDENTIFYING INFORMATION command to respond with a
              list of available information types and their maximum lengths  in  bytes.  The  odd
              numbered  information  types  between  3 and 125 (inclusive) are not to be used (as
              they clash with the SCC-2 standard).

       -r, --raw
              invokes the Report Identifying information command and if anything is  found  sends
              the  information  (which  may  be binary) to stdout. Nothing else is sent to stdout
              however error reports, if any, are sent to stderr.

       -S, --set
              first reads stdin until an EOF is detected then invokes the Set Identifying  Infor-
              mation  command  to  set  what  has been fetched from stdin as the information. The
              amount of data read must be between 1 and 512 bytes length (inclusive).

       -v, --verbose
              increase the level of verbosity, (i.e. debug output).

       -V, --version
              print the version string and then exit.

       This utility permits users to write their own identifying information to  their  SCSI  de-
       vices.  There are several other types of descriptors (or designators) that the user cannot
       change. These include the SCSI INQUIRY command with its standard vendor and product  iden-
       tification  strings  and  the product revision level; plus the large amount of information
       provided by the "Device Identification" VPD page (see sg_vpd). There is also the READ  ME-
       DIA  SERIAL NUMBER command (see sg_rmsn). The MMC-4 command set for CD and DVDs has a "me-
       dia serial number" feature (0x109) [and a "logical unit serial number" feature]. These can
       be viewed with the sg_get_config utility.

EXAMPLES
       First, to see if there is an existing information whose format is unknown (for information
       type 0), use no options:

         # sg_ident /dev/sdb
          00     31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38  39 30          1234567890

       If it is ASCII then it can printed as such:

         # sg_ident --ascii /dev/sdb
         1234567890

       The information can be copied to a file, cleared and then re-asserted with this sequence:

         # sg_ident --raw /dev/sdb > t
         # sg_ident --clear /dev/sdb
         # cat t | sg_ident --set /dev/sdb

EXIT STATUS
       The exit status of sg_ident is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise see the sg3_utils(8) man
       page.

AUTHORS
       Written by Douglas Gilbert.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <dgilbert at interlog dot com>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Douglas Gilbert
       This  software  is distributed under a FreeBSD license. There is NO warranty; not even for
       MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       sg_vpd(sg3_utils), sg_rmsn(sg3_utils), sg_get_config(sg3_utils)

sg3_utils-1.43                             August 2018                                SG_IDENT(8)

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