SCSI_MANDAT(8)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so the manual name here is scsi_mandat 💖 and it's basically a check for SCSI device support for mandatory commands. bestie, this one is lowkey iconic ✨

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

scsi_mandat [--help] [--log] [--quiet] [--verbose] DEVICE

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

this is a bash shell script 🐚 that runs a bunch of SCSI commands on whatever DEVICE you hand it. these commands count as mandatory (it does shift a little depending on which standard or draft the DEVICE follows, so don't panic 🙈). you get the result of every test plus a pass/fail count at the end. no cap, it's so clean 🌸

✨ OPTIONS ✨

bestie, arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too 🫶 so keep that in mind!

• -h, --help — prints the usage message and then exits 👑
• -L, --log — every bit of stderr output from each SCSI command gets appended to a file called 'scsi_mandat.err' in your current working directory 📝
• -q, --quiet — the output gets dialed way down, and you'll usually just see the pass/fail count 🤫
• -v, --verbose — cranks up the verbosity level 📣

🦋 EXIT STATUS 🦋

the exit status is the number of "bad" errors that got found 😭 so an exit status of 0 means every mandatory SCSI command behaved exactly as expected. that's the dream ✨

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Written by D. Gilbert 💜

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2011-2013 Douglas Gilbert 🍓 this software is distributed under a BSD-2-Clause license. there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 💀

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

sg_inq, sg_luns, sg_turs, sg_requests, sg_vpd, sg_senddiag (all from sg3_utils) 🔥

bestie, that's the whole page 🥹 this one came from sg3_utils-1.36, last updated May 2013. stay iconic and keep your SCSI devices mandatory-compliant 💖🦋