NAME¶
sg_scan - does a scan of sg devices (or given SCSI/ATAPI/ATA devices) and prints
the results
SYNOPSIS¶
sg_scan [
-a] [
-i] [
-n] [
-w] [
-x]
[
DEVICE]*
DESCRIPTION¶
If no
DEVICE names are given, sg_scan does a scan of the sg devices and
outputs a line of information for each sg device that is currently bound to a
SCSI device. If one or more
DEVICEs are given only those devices are
scanned. Each device is opened with the O_NONBLOCK flag so that the scan will
not "hang" on any device that another process holds an O_EXCL lock
on.
Any given
DEVICE name is expected to comply with (to some extent) the
Storage Architecture Model (SAM see www.t10.org). Any device names associated
with the Linux SCSI subsystem (e.g. /dev/sda and /dev/st0m) are suitable.
Devices names associated with ATAPI devices (e.g. most CD/DVD drives and ATAPI
tape drives) are also suitable. If the device does not fall into the above
categories then an ATA IDENTIFY command is tried.
OPTIONS¶
- -a
- do alphabetical scan (i.e. sga, sgb, sgc). Note that sg
device nodes with an alphabetical index have been deprecated since the
linux kernel 2.2 series.
- -i
- do a SCSI INQUIRY, output results in a second (indented)
line. If the device is an ATA disk then output information from an ATA
IDENTIFY command
- -n
- do numeric scan (i.e. sg0, sg1...) [default]
- -w
- use a read/write flag when opening sg device (default is
read-only)
- -x
- extra information output about queuing
NOTES¶
This utility was written at a time when hotplugging of SCSI devices was not
supported in Linux. It used a simple algorithm to scan sg device nodes in
ascending numeric or alphabetical order, stopping after there were 4
consecutive errors.
In the linux kernel 2.6 series, this utility uses sysfs to find which sg device
nodes are active and only checks those. Hence there can be large
"holes" in the numbering of sg device nodes (e.g. after an adapter
has been removed) and still all active sg device nodes will be listed. This
utility assumes that sg device nodes are named using the normal conventions
and searches from /dev/sg0 to /dev/sg4095 inclusive.
EXIT STATUS¶
The exit status of sg_scan is 0 when it is successful. Otherwise see the
sg3_utils(8) man page.
AUTHORS¶
Written by D. Gilbert and F. Jansen
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright © 1999-2006 Douglas Gilbert
This software is distributed under the GPL version 2. There is NO warranty; not
even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.