SCSI_READY(8)

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✨ SCSI_READY(8) ✨

💖 NAME 💖

okay so the manual page is for scsi_ready, and its whole job is doing a SCSI TEST UNIT READY on devices 🧚

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

scsi_ready [--brief] [--help] [--verbose] DEVICE [DEVICE]*

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

bestie, this is a bash shell script that calls the sg_turs utility on each DEVICE you give it 💅 It sends a SCSI TEST UNIT READY command to every DEVICE, and lowkey it's giving "are you awake?" energy. Disks, tape drives, and DVD/BD players, amongst others, may respond to this command ✨

👑 OPTIONS 👑

Arguments to long options are mandatory for short options as well 🫶

  • -b, --brief — for each DEVICE, you get a line that says either ready or device not ready 💜 If the DEVICE isn't found, or there's another serious error, you'll see an error message instead 😭
  • -h, --help — prints the usage message and then exits 🌸
  • -v, --verbose — increases the level of verbosity 🔥 more verbose, more tea ☕

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

When it's successful, the exit status of this script is 0, no cap 💖 Otherwise, the exit status is whatever the last sg_turs utility called gave back. For the full rundown, check the sg3_utils(8) man page 🧚

🍓 AUTHORS 🍓

Written by D. Gilbert, the real MVP 👑

Copyright © 2009-2013 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 🙈 so use it with good vibes and your own judgment 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

sg_turs (sg3_utils) 💅

bestie, that's the whole page 💖 it's from sg3_utils-1.36, dated May 2013, and it's still giving 🎀✨

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